Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.

I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.