Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.

Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'