I'm talking a lot on financing in the Masterclass and I know what it means to because I had to finance my first films, all of them, and I earned my money as a welder in a steel factory doing night shifts while I was still in high school during the day.

There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.

It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.

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