The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That is what makes them special and a movie star. An actor's capital is his body.