The basic theme is the dichotomy of womanhood. The woman cut in two. Every society creates laws to exercise power over women and exclude certain parts of the woman.
It's not realism that I am interested, it was Reality — understood through symbols.
I use my actors as a painter uses his colors.
I'm interested in myth and transcendence — a different kind of knowledge, a different type of knowledge.
To be able to reach the heights of purity you have to suffer through deprivation and humiliations. And what could have been a descent into hell becomes liberation.
We cannot sum it up in words — that's it why cinema is so necessary.