The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

I don't want the director to have to make any decisions except to say "action" and "cut."

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

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.