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I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.

A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

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.

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 never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.