Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.

I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.

I have always got medicine I want to give to people.