So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.

Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal.

I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general.

I believe in the utmost importance of one human being's actions toward another. This is actually what I believe in. How we handle one another, that's what makes us feel isolated, feel like outsiders sometimes. These questions are overwhelming. "What do you do in this world?" I believe in that more than anything.