I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

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

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.

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.