What I Like Are Films That Take

I Try To Get Closer To Reality, To Get Close To The Contradictions. The Cinema World Can Be A Real World Rather Than A Dream World.

On The Set I Make Jokes I Can't Get Too Involved, Or It Turns Into Sentimental Soup. I Try To Keep It Light.

If I Tell The Audience What They Should Think, Then I Am Robbing Them Of Their Own Imagination And Their Own Capacity Of Deciding What's Important To Them.

Personally, I Can't Stand Violence. In Any Standard American Mainstream Movie, There's 20 Times More Violence Than In Any One Of My Films, So I Don't Know Why Those Directors Aren't Asked Why They're Such Specialists For Violence.

In General, In All My Films, I Choose To Create A Certain Mistrust, Rather Than Claiming That What I'm Showing Onscreen Is An Accurate Reproduction Of Reality. I Want People To Question What They Are Seeing Onscreen. In The Same Way As I Used The Narrator, I Also Used Black And White, Because It Creates A Distance Toward What's Being Seen. I See The Film As An Artifact Rather Than A Reliable Reconstruction Of A Reality That We Cannot Know.