I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

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