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.

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

My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear.

The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen.

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

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life