I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

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

I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.

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.

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.