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I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

The subjects have to come with questions for me. I don't make films where I'm a massive fan.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

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 think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.'