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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.

With every film, we form a small little world for a period of time. Everybody is close, and then one fine day everything is over. That can throw you off. So you have to learn to take things in your stride and not get too emotional about people or situations.

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

I always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.

I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that's my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.