I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

You have to invent life.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.

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