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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

People think that I have some idea about how I choose my films. I make sure that I am doing the kind of films that I want to watch. You hear so many stories, and one of them will stand out and connect to you somewhere.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

I fell in love with filmmaking. I fell in love with criticism. I fell in love with theory, and it made me really dogmatic in my approach to choosing roles.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.