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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to.

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.