Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats: comedy sketches, talk shows, debate programs, art variety shows, quiz shows. These enable me to meet interesting people with interesting stories and to learn about interesting subjects, all of which I can reflect into film.

I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts. It happens unexpectedly and looks painful. That's how it is in real life, and that's how it should be expressed. I don't glamorize it, nor do I depict it without necessity or inevitability.

In people's minds, I'm a comic, so it took a lot of time before I was recognized as a director. I had to be patient until the public accepted me. As a result, my early films didn't get a lot of attention. As a serious film actor, things didn't take off, either. Only my comic talents were recognized.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.