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I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.