I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.

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

I can't tell you why I choose stuff, it's really something I don't analyse. The only thing I can say is that a film has to demand to be made, I don't have a plan of what films I'm going to make. The only thing that I know now is that I'm not too crazy about doing things again that I've been into before.

I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.