I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

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.

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.

For 6,000 years, these rules have been unquestionably right. And yet we break them every day. People feel that something is wrong in life. There is some kind of atmosphere that makes people now turn to other values. They want to contemplate the basic questions of life, and that is probably the real reason for wanting to tell these stories.

There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.