I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!

I'm not an activist.

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there’s insecurity, collapse of financial systems – that’s where film noir always hits fertile ground.

It is only through writing that I become myself.

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur – like creation – in grandiose splendor.

Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal – be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever – human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people’s movies. I direct operas. I write books.

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.