We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.

If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.

I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.

I would say, and this sounds like a rather immodest thing to say, but the truth is it's probably the most amazing thing of all, it's pretty much exactly what I thought we were going to make, what I hoped we'd make.

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.

There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.