The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.

The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.

The role of the artist is to not look away.

To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.

I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.

If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.