I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

I want to die consciously, without fear, and without anger. Three things. I see my friends dying with fear and anger and it's terrible. My grandmother kept her clothes ready for 40 years for her funeral. She lived to 103! But she kept the clothes in a cupboard. As the styles changed, she changed the clothes! I think if I start now with my funeral, it's good.

We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.

I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.