This kind of directing, I think, is very similar to being a football coach. You prepare your players and place them in the right places, but once the game is on, there's nothing much you can do - you can smoke a cigarette or get nervous, but you can't do much.

Anything I've not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.

I did not have a script [of Close Up]. I made notes in the evenings and we filmed during the day over 40 days.I didn't sleep a wink for those 40 nights. I have a picture from the end of the shoot, and in it I have lost all my hair.

In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.

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.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.