I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.

I can't tell you why I choose stuff, it's really something I don't analyse. The only thing I can say is that a film has to demand to be made, I don't have a plan of what films I'm going to make. The only thing that I know now is that I'm not too crazy about doing things again that I've been into before.

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance