What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship..

To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges..

Every day, there's that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there's still that mountain to cli….

The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a c….

I have many projects in various states of development. Some are on paper and some are in my head. But as I go on, I feel the need to be guided in my ….

I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors ….

I had started out with the intent to make a love story and something not so grave or so dark.So I went into this saying, "I want to do a love story, ….

[ Blue is the Warmest Color ] was really a film about two people having to go through a relationship which everyone knew would lead to a breakup and ….

My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman..

This film [ Blue is the Warmest Color] actually is the result of me talking with my producer Vincent [Maraval]. I gave him a bunch of ideas and then ….

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there..

I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in..

I didn't really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés..

When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying..