What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
Do you not hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence?
I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
With actors, normally I don’t like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.