We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

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.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

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.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

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.