I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.

As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.

I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliché, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

When I write a film, I have already made the trailer