If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

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

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

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

If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I’ve left behind me.

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.

It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.