Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.

When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write it. So this is the genesis of my creation. If I want to know what happens, if I want to find out the secret, I have to write it.

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

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

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.