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

When making a film, I'm never concerned about whether the theme is new or whether it's been done before in cinema or not. I'm led to make films if there's a theme that interests me or I experience something in my own life that confronts me with something that I want to deal with.

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

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.

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.

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

Unfortunately, you're helpless when people interpret your work wrongly. There are simply people who can't or won't understand or accept what you're trying to do. When you take the risk of expressing yourself in public, you have to open yourself to that possibility.