I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

The secret ingredient to sex is love.

I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

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?

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

I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.