Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.