When you make a film, you come to say something.

There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know that it won't get out of that room.

I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her because the family says no.

When you make a film, you come to say something.