I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.

We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.

Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.

You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.