I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible..

Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings..

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

He who would travel happy must travel lite..

...doing more with less..

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong..

Resist doing things that have no meaning for life..

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that det….

We are what we are, wherever we are..

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something..

I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution.".

He who commences many things finishes but few..

We're nothing without science. Nothing..

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for..

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth..

I like to be the one in charge of everything..

The old Lena is dead..

That’s what you do for family. Anything..

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film..

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -.