A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.

I really haven't seen The Report in a long time. I don't have a copy, but I'll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.

In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.

My last experience of film-making was Tickets, a three-episode film in Italy, the third of which is directed by myself. It's not for me to judge whether it's a good film or a bad film, but what I could say is that nobody had a cultural or linguistic issue with what was produced.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.