I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film everything, and we use cuts of this first take, also.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I’ve left behind me.

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.