A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

When I find the character, I try to spend time with them and get to know them very well. Therefore my notes are not from the character that I had in my mind before, but are instead based on the people I've met in real life.

The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back.

I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.