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

I'm a very dull passenger. I don't speak. I don't have sex. No alcohol. I don't do drugs. The thing that I like about flying is that I feel like I can really concentrate. I used to write many things, and many ideas for my movies belong to this moment where I'm not anywhere specifically in terms of time and space and geography. I am suspended, and this suspension fits me very well.

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.

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.

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

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

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