Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

I think the first sign of friendship is a manifestation of how you separate from your parents and try to find a new family on your own. It's the first sign of growing.

Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.

Maybe I would get the chance to be financed for a small romantic comedy, but a war movie by a 28-year-old woman about Japanese soldiers? No one was going to go for that. It's easy to just steal an idea because it's very safe.

And I realized that directing actors is really important because that's what ends up on screen.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.