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

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

I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.

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

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.

Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.