Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology but not at the cost of losing your originality.

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher ' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers then society would appear very different from what it is.

I've always loved 3D. In fact as a kid I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre classic normal romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious but I want to live and breathe cinema.