Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself
Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.
If someone's lying to us, then it's rare that we know that they're lying to us. It's only in bad films that you recognize immediately that an actor's playing in such a way that you can see that he's lying, and that's simply dumb. But to reach that, it requires that you make a film in such a way that a spectator feels compelled to find his own explanation. You want to lead the spectator to find his own interpretation. To ask questions rather than provide all of the answers. Doing that leads to open endings and open dramaturgy.
Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.
Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.
I consider all my films experiments.
What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge.
I'm interested in seeing films that confront me with new things, with films that make me question myself, with films that help me to reflect on subjects that I hadn't thought about before, films that help me progress and advance.
I consider all my films an experiment, at least in my mind.
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.
If you do an original film and you want to cut a scene out you do it. But when you do a shot by shot remake you don't have that option and every scene has to work again.
