There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.