In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not believe this, but I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

I've never studied psychology.

It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.

I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.