I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.

My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.