Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that’s for sure. Although I think it’s difficult to believe in evil.

If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I’ve left behind me.

I think it’s important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it’s not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.

It’s always been a lie that it’s difficult to make films.

I’m having a vacation, and it’s so beautiful, and maybe I’ll never get another film idea in my life.

I’m fighting against my will to control. I think that is what I am doing. I would like to accept things in life, in all matters of life I would like to accept, but it’s so difficult. I think we all have this struggle.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I’m not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.