I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a piece of music, what would it be?"

All my other movies have the same process. Same approach. Same amount of changes. Everything. Things being made up on the fly. Changing things around. Firing and recasting. Constantly, constantly, in chronological sequence, not really knowing how this is going to end up. That is the only dogmatic approach I take towards everything.

Doing your first film, it's very important that it's a commercial success, because that gives you a couple times to experiment until you have to hit the jackpot again.

I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see.

I just close my eyes and I fantasize what I would like to see.