I'm Very Happy In France Making Movies.

The Germans Were Much More Graphical. The Expressionism Is Much More Than Cinema. It Was A Movement With Artists, Painters, Music And Architecture, So It's Really Graphic And Visual. And The French Were Something Else.

I Always Loved Silent Movies. I Was Not A Specialist, But I Loved Them. And When I Started Directing, I Became Really Fascinated By The Format - How It Works, The Device Of The Silent Movie. It's Not The Same Form Of Expression As A Talkie. The Lack Of Sounds Makes You Participate In The Storytelling

There Are Two Kinds Of Audiences. There's The Ones Who Were In The Theaters, And The Ones Who Are Outside And We Want Them To Come Inside The Theater. And, It's Not The Same.

I Think We Are At The Very Beginning Of High Changes, Not Only In Terms Of Digital Film, But In The Way The Movies Will Be Screened, Whether They'll Be Screened On Phones, On Computers - On Everything

I Watched A Lot Of Silent Directors Who Were Absolutely Great Like John Ford And Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, And Also Some Very Modern Directors Like The Coen Brothers. The Directors Take The Freedom Within Their Own Movies To Be Melodramatic Or Funny When They Chose To Be. They Do Whatever They Want And They Don't Care About The Genre.