I do not want to have a cell phone. I do not want it for cultural reasons. I do not want to be available all the time. I want to have time to think and to touch somebody, and have a meal across my kitchen table without a cell phone, being constantly on tweets.

I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.

May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.

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.

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.