Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.

One of the things that make motorcycling so great is because it never fails to give you a feeling of freedom and adventure.

Stardom equals freedom. It's the only equation that matters.

There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.

I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.

The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.

I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen. It is when you put people in a straitjacket that it doesn't seem to translate very well at all. The individuals I work with are usually people I know.