Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

When an actor comes to you and starts working with the script, the image of his character that you had in your mind gets substituted with an image of that particular actor. And this is the right way to go. An actor has to be absolutely truthful - this is the only thing required of him, apart from talent of course. It's very easy to understand: you need to absolutely believe in what you see.

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.

Some actors come to casting and ask me, "Didn't you see my previous roles?" We do not work with actors like this. Their previous roles do not matter; I need the actual work with an actor in this particular character that has been written in our script. What matters is flexibility, believability and efficiency of an actor.

Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.

What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way that they should be told.