Note : This interview was found on a blog on internet. I can't guaranty its origin nor its authenticity, but the answers are quite funny…

• When have you already died ?
  • EK : Each time I shoot a movie. But I died twice on the shooting of Underground. I reborn each time I finish the film. There is no death, only a migration.

• What makes you rise in the morning ?
  • EK : When I'm in town, a bad news. When I'm in Kustendorf, the sound of the horses running under my window.

• What did your child's dreams become ?
  • EK : I put them in my films.

• What distinguish you from the other ?
  • EK : A big head and small legs.

• Do you miss something ?
  • EK : A nuclear weapon.

• Do you think anyone can be an artist ?
  • EK : Of course, many of my actors have never been an actor before nor after being in my films.

• Where do you come from ?
  • EK : From the desert, even if I'm not a bedooin.

• Do you think your life is enviable ?
  • EK : Yes. For someone who wants to commit suicide.

• What have you renounced to ?
  • EK : To the Honolulu islands.

• What do you do with your money ?
  • EK : I build my own city, Kustendorf. I'm the owner and the mayor. I choose the citizens and not the contrary. It's an antidemocratic zone.

• What housework duty do you hate most ?
  • EK : All of them.

• What would you like to have for your birthday ?
  • EK : A new bulldozer.

• Tell three living artists you hate.
  • EK : All those who are employed by the Hollywood brain washing machine.

• What do you defend ?
  • EK : It's better to be freely inactive than to work for nothing.

• What can you refuse ?
  • EK : The state.

• What part of your body is the most fragile ?
  • EK : The soul.

• What were you able to do for love ?
  • EK : Everything. When you're in love, 80 % of the brain doesn't work.

• What do people reproach to you ?
  • EK : Noise.

• Why art ?
  • EK : I make money of it.

• Write your epitaph.
  • EK : “This man lies here, where life has no price, but death yes.”

• How would you like to come back ?
  • EK : I don't want to come back.

Translation : Matthieu Dhennin