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I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

Films with a message just make me laugh.

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.

I don't think good films have messages.

You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

I love films, I love the way they make me feel.