I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.

I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to.

This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements are highlighted while others are obscured or even pushed back into the dark. And it's something that we do - we bring out elements that we want to emphasise.