It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.

I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I'm not the only one.

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

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.