In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping out of yourself, beyond yourself and perceiving something which is only, in the case of cinema, possible in collective dreams.

If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.

My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.

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