I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.