I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

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 am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

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

Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.

If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.