As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I don’t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?

I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't want to give me money to make films, that will stop me. But as long as people come all over the world and I have an audience and I have ideas for films, I will do them for as long as I enjoy the process. And I like the whole process of making a film.

Enthusiasm is a good engine, but it needs intelligence for a driver.

God is either cruel or incompetent.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Eternity is really long, especially near the end.

Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.