I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.

I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.