When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.

Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through [one's own] experience. It isn't necessarily optimistic when you look at the political phenomena, the different things that are going on in the world.

I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.

There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.