Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

All art is autobiographical.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.