In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.