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.

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

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

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

I am the best film director in the world.

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.