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

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.

Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.

Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.