- [on his early encounter with cinema] Films were my only opening to the world. They were my only possibility of escaping my family environment and my boarding school. It was probably dangerous because, through movies, I learned how the world works and how human relations work. But it was magical, and I was determined to follow the thread of that magic.
- All my films have the same themes, albeit in different forms. My evolution is in the way I excavate the same themes. I suppose there's some autobiography, but it's totally deformed. It's fiction that interests me. But for this fiction to work, it is fed by distant experiences that return to the surface.
- What I find fascinating about adolescence is the element of transition, that moment of metamorphosis where the juvenile's identity as a child is lost, but where his/her identity as an adult is also yet to develop.
- I never know how each film will end. When I'm filming, I shoot each scene as if it were a short film. It's only when I edit that I worry about the narrative. My objective is to tell a story, but that's the final thing I do.
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