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I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

I don't understand why we give up genres, and the Western is a great genre. It's a part of the rich history of cinema and who we are as we've evolved as people, as a community.

I was not interested by cinema when I was young.

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.