I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.

Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

I try to be after something that is deeply reverberating inside of our souls, some deep echo from - even from prehistory. What makes us humans? How do we communicate? Where are we going at this moment? Something for an audience where they can step outside of themselves, where they can be almost like in ecstasy of truth, some sort of deep illumination. And that's what I'm trying in documentaries and in feature films.