There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.

There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.

I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.

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.