That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

You don't have to be naked to be sexy.

I just feel like I'm in the world right now. There have been times when I haven't felt in the world, when I haven't cared whether I was going to be here or not, so my relationship with being on the earth was probably not as intense. And right now, there's an intensity - I want to be here.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.