When I fall in love, I don't know why I fall in love, I just know that I am in love.

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

Having a big budget, I have no problem with spending the movie. It's fantastic to have a big budget. It gives a lot of time. It gives a lot of freedom. What's difficult is raising the money beforehand, and then when the investor wants the money back, afterwards.

If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying, Okay, it has a lot of taste, and continuing to chew it.

An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film.

A film is like a message dropped in a bottle in the sea that somebody finds. Every time somebody finds it, it's a miracle. But, I don't know what the perception will be. I can know what I tried to do, but I never know what the perception is.