Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film stands on its own, apart from whether it's based on a novel.

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.