There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are "like" someone in love sounds right.

I think violence can never be justified. At the same time, nobody’s culture or beliefs should be insulted, that’s not something I can accept either. But I cannot justify or accept any violence at all.

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.

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

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

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.