A dead love never dies.

I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be.

Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices.

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