There Is A Mysterious Stillness And Intimacy

After The Enormous Success Of All About My Mother, All The Awards And Everything, I Wanted To Start A Movie In Exactly The Same Place That I Used To Be Before. I Wanted To Show That All Of The Success Had Not Changed My Perception.

When I'm Writing, I Don't Put Faces On The Characters. When I Finish The First Draft Of The Script, I Start Visualizing, And Sometimes Then I Think About One Actor.

The Silent Film Has A Lot Of Meanings. The First Part Of The Film Is Comic. It Represents The Burlesque Feel Of Those Silent Films. But I Think That The Second Part Of The Film Is Full Of Tenderness And Emotion.

I Tried To Think About These Two Issues Very Freely. With Sex, I Think I Can Manage With That. With Death, This Is A More Difficult Theme For Me. I'm Not A Believer, Even Though I'm Baptized. I Don't Practice. I Don't Believe In God, So I Feel Very Alone Facing Death. What I Discovered Is That The Only Way To Recognize Death Is If You Are Part Of Life, If You Are Part Of Sexual Pleasure, If You Link It With Sexual Pleasure.

I Was Always Storytelling, Since I Was A Child. I Remember Myself At 10 Years Old Telling Stories To My Sisters And Brother. This Is Something I Did Through My Adolescence And Even Through My Twenties.