I Make Movies For Money,

It Is True What Rimbaud Said; If You Think A Book Is Strong Enough, Try It At The Ocean, In The Wind, At The Waves. If The Book Can Resist The Ocean, Then It Exists. Otherwise, Throw It Away.

You Leap Over The Wall Of One Ghetto And Find Yourself In Another Ghetto.

If I Hadn't Refused Ken Russell, Fellini And Spielberg And Made Their Movies When They Asked Me, My Life Would Be No Different. It Is Not My Fault That I Accepted One Movie And Turned Down Another. I Don't See Any Point In Defending Myself, Either.

Sometimes My Heart Hurts So Much, I Beat It With My Fists. I Try To Run. But You Cannot Run From This. It Waits For You. Even When You Think You Have Escaped It, It Is There.

On Working With Director Werner Herzog: I Have To Shoot Without Any Breaks. I Yell At Herzog And Hit Him. I Have To Fight For Every Sequence. I Wish Herzog Would Catch The Plague.