It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.