In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.