Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things, as revenge. To show that I could.
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.
