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

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

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.

Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings.

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

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.

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that.