I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.
I'm fighting against my will to control. I think that is what I am doing. I would like to accept things in life, in all matters of life I would like to accept, but it's so difficult. I think we all have this struggle.
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.
I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.
If there are some people that like the film and some people that do not, that's fine for me, because I do not intend to make very broad films.
I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
Political correctness kills discussion.
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.
It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.
I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.
I understand Hitler... I sympathise with him a little bit.
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.
I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.
When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
I always do something that I’ve never done before...
I am crazy about time cuts. I have a theory that the audience tie everything together so they don't see time cuts but the time cuts give us the possibility of jumping in time, which means a psychological evolution can be cut down.
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them
I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.
I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.
I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.
