I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be worried why George Lucas is going to the outer galaxy to make a movie. He's still making a film within his culture; he's making an American film. I go to Thailand or the Peruvian jungle, the Amazon, and I still make Bavarian films.

If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.