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

You can't go further than being naked.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.

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

I like the idea of challenging Hollywood on its own turf. It's important to do that.

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