It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.

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.

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

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

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.