I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.

You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.

Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.