I had good parents. Nothing terrible happened. But I had the feeling that they kind of protected me from reality somehow.

I had good parents. Nothing terrible happened. But I had the feeling that they kind of protected me from reality somehow.

I don't have storyboards, but I have some very strict rules, like not moving the camera.

With digital, you can shoot longer, take more risks.

I think sometimes there are films where I understand what they are about, but there are also some mysterious areas in the film where I haven't got the whole image and I haven't got everything. And then it stays much longer with me, because I have to somehow put myself much more into the film to get it. And so this is what I'm trying to do with my films.

It seems to me that [my films] are talking about very simple and, I hope, universal feelings. And at the same time, even though they are set in a very weird world with elements that are irrational, at the same time, it's very close to an ordinary world. And I like to have this third feeling of mystery.

The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world.