In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.