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

I’m having a vacation and it’s so beautiful and maybe I’ll never get another film idea in my life.

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

I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat. You have to kind of have a look at the potato or the piece of meat and see what kind of possibilities are in the ingredient. I know I'm using the wrong metaphor. I think my job is to see what potato is there and from there, just work under their conditions.

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

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.