A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

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.

I consider all my films an experiment, at least in my mind.

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

It's more enjoyable to shoot in a studio on a single location with two actors... if they are good.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.