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.

If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

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?