I don’t want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it’s to show one emotion.
I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.
Even though I love my mother, I didn’t want to make an idealized portrait of her. I’m fascinated more by her defects – they are funnier than her other qualities.
I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.
If I had not been successful as a director, then I’m sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.
I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.
A dead love never dies.