I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

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.

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.

I never use soundtrack; it is always part of the story.

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

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.