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A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.

I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.

I am happy with my family and my colleagues and want to continue making my own kind of cinema. I have never belonged to any camp and have no friends in the industry. Most of them will pay lip service, but when it comes to doing, they tend to shy away.

I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

I am really not interested in the cinema.