My car is my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We're in the most comfortable seats because we're not facing each other, but sitting side by side.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

It's very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around them, and we arrive at much more intimate moments with them.

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.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.