Unfortunately, I never played an instrument. I can't blame my parents, but I wish I had had music lessons. It's odd because I think I have a good sense of rhythm, as they say in some fields. But I don't know anything about music.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

It is always a problem to know what an image means.

Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

There's a literal track: who says what to whom, what are people wearing, etcetera. And there's the abstract track: what ideas are suggested by the literal. And the real movie takes place in the relationship between the literal and the abstract.