I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.

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.

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

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

Never say no. It always depends on what's possible. I don't care so much where it is; it's what I want to do that matters.

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

When you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too, is a beautiful idea, but millions of people died when communism became an ideology.