[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.

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

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

I simply don't like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to be all the time stoned and on weed. It didn't look right and it doesn't look right today either and the damage drugs have done to civilizations are too enormous. And besides, I don't need any drug to step out of myself. I don't want them and I do not need them.

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.

I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.