Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

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

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

A dead love never dies.

I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and I turn him into my assistant. You could say I intervene, and I intervene in a very determining way in all the aspects that have to do with the visual construction of the film.

When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.

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