If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

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

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn't matter. It's about connecting sensibility and energy together, and having a vision that goes together and anchors the film as you go along.

I am not a woman staying at home.

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.