On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.

Of course I am a child of European culture. There are a number of great directors from which I learned, but there is nobody in particular I got inspired from.

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.

My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a cinema, and I'm watching a movie that answers all the questions that it raises, it's a film that bores me. In the same way, if I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge.