There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. That routine pays off for you. You get a lot of productivity that way, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration and waiting for the perfect thing to happen. I would be much less productive that way.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.

Life is for the living.

I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings.

People say that death is a part of life and there must be something to it, but I just see it as bad news and I want everybody to stop sugarcoating it.

People are always talking about the dumbing down of the country.