Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.

I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.

I am a wife-made man.