I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.