I'm the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I'd like to be there.

There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It's never been easy.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit