Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

I don't like to shoot too many movies since I like to do them well.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

I don't want to become a superstar and not see my family anymore.