I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.