Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.

If I have a good dream and I wake up happy. When I have an idea, I feel happy. Sometimes achievement and relationships can make me happy. I have a son and to see him grow - he's 22 now - that makes me happy.

Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.

I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.

In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.

I'm always excited to work with actors.

There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.