I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.

I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It would challenge her performance as a professional actress.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it's not something predetermined - it all depends on what project we have in mind, and on that basis we choose the medium.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them. Actors are also like children.