Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the cause and effect of violent activity. It's not a Donald Duck situation where he get a brick in the back of the head and gets up and walks away in the next frame. Mine have violence which keeps Donald Duck in the hospital for six months and creates a trauma which he will remember for the rest of his life.

My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby - but just me. Nobody else.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema?

We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.