It's Much Harder To Write A Script

Awards Are Important For All Directors Because They Improve Your Working Conditions. You're Only As Good As Your Last Film, So If You Get Prizes Or Large Audiences, Then You Get More Money For Your Next Film.

The Smaller And Younger Kids Are, The More Patient You Have To Be. But If They're Gifted, Then It's A Wonderful Present That You're Given By Having A Child Like That In Your Film... More So Than In The Case Of Actors Because, For Example, If You Ask Them To Play A Lion, They Don't Then Play A Lion, They Actually Are A Lion. So, A Gifted Child Is Something Very Special. On The Other Hand, If A Child Has No Gifts In That Way It's Absolutely Hopeless And There's Nothing You Can Do!

If Someone's Lying To Us, Then It's Rare That We Know That They're Lying To Us. It's Only In Bad Films That You Recognize Immediately That An Actor's Playing In Such A Way That You Can See That He's Lying, And That's Simply Dumb. But To Reach That, It Requires That You Make A Film In Such A Way That A Spectator Feels Compelled To Find His Own Explanation. You Want To Lead The Spectator To Find His Own Interpretation. To Ask Questions Rather Than Provide All Of The Answers. Doing That Leads To Open Endings And Open Dramaturgy.

Never Say No. It Always Depends On What's Possible. I Don't Care So Much Where It Is; It's What I Want To Do That Matters.

I'm Interested In Seeing Films That Confront Me With New Things, With Films That Make Me Question Myself, With Films That Help Me To Reflect On Subjects That I Hadn't Thought About Before, Films That Help Me Progress And Advance.