Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let go of everything he's got inside. I always try to tone down the acting, because my stories demand it, to the point where I might change a script so that an actor has no opportunity to come out well.

Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.