Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.

The greatest location in the world is the human face.

Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean when what you mean is painful. The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to... As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad - to be willing to risk everything to really express it all.