I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.

We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.

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

There is never an excuse not to finish a film.

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.