Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.

Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is of minor significance. What is significant is that with him an entire epoch ends. The Last Lion has left us.I am still not capable - or rather unwilling - to understand the fact that Amos passed away, because a man like him cannot be dead. His traces are everywhere.

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

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.

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.

It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.