When I was young I thought: when I am 60 my necessities will be very different. As I get near that age, I realise they are similar to what they were when I was 25.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

I'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

A dead love never dies.

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.