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.

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.

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

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.

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.