Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life.

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life