Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in a culture of images. People are used to seeing stories that way. They understand looking at pictures.

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.