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"In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that."
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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great."

"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."

"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."

"I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way."
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"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."

"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."

"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."

"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."

"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."

"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."
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