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

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?

I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in evil.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

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.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.