Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.