Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.