If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.

I haven't been very active in politics.

Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is concerned, dating back to the Greek tragedies or the Old Testament. And violence is a form of conflict, so whether that's catharsis or whether that has some socially damaging effect on audiences - I suppose that would just depend.

As you get older, you change certain things.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.