Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the exterior but I know that when I'm filming outside, I'm filming inside. I can only really touch the inside through the mise-en-scene. So through the mise-en-scene of the outside we can explore the inside