There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.