I Am Partly Not Conscious

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.

I Tried To Think About These Two Issues Very Freely. With Sex, I Think I Can Manage With That. With Death, This Is A More Difficult Theme For Me. I'm Not A Believer, Even Though I'm Baptized. I Don't Practice. I Don't Believe In God, So I Feel Very Alone Facing Death. What I Discovered Is That The Only Way To Recognize Death Is If You Are Part Of Life, If You Are Part Of Sexual Pleasure, If You Link It With Sexual Pleasure.

I Also Wanted To Express The Strength Of Cinema To Hide Reality, While Being Entertaining. Cinema Can Fill In The Empty Spaces Of Your Life And Your Loneliness.

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.

When I Was Young I Thought: When I Am 60 My Necessities Will Be Very Different. As I Get Near That Age, I Realise They Are Similar To What They Were When I Was 25.