"Yes, I identify a lot with the character [Gregor Samsa], but I don't wanna go into all the reason's why."
"I wrote a script. But I'm not entirely happy with the script. And something is just, uh, not right about it, something's missing, and maybe it will pop in later on."
"This beetle costs so much money to make, and even so, I don't know if Technology is, um, really, ah, ready to, uh, manu...To build a beetle that work like I would like it to work. But if you told me you could build a perfect beetle, ah, then I would concentrate, I would, I would sit down and really concentrate on the story and reading and reading it. And I think in a little while I might, ah, you know, solve the problem."
"I don't like to say again that I love Franz Kafka because everybody says that. But I truly love him. We had a plan with Frantisek Daniel, to make a film based on Kafka`s story The Metamorphosis. I've even finished the storyboard, but the problem is the beetle. In Kafka`s story the man metamorphoses into a beetle. It would have been good to make it as a mechanical puppet five years ago, but now it would be possible to do it only with computer animation. And that is very expensive. Maybe after another five years the prices will be lower and maybe than it will be possible to make it. That would be wonderful.
