With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

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'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another 100,000 years?" In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.

We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.