Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.

Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

I don't make judgments about what's good or bad or what's real and isn't in culture.

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

When I choose a color, it's often intuitively, but always with a cinematic sense.

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.