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Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.

In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

I've always loved reading and always loved the movies. Storytelling is one of the oldest of human endeavors, and they give us our understanding of the world and our place in it. When I discovered that there were people who professionally were involved in the creation of stories, it was game over - I knew what I wanted to do it.

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.

I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.