I have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don't use my camera anymore as a camera. I don't feel it as a camera. I feel it as a friend, as something that doesn't make an impression on people, that doesn't make them feel uncomfortable, and that is completely forgotten in my way of approaching life and people and film.

I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.

I'm still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn't have this feeling with the RED one.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

It is a very important film, Life And Nothing More, in that what was filmed was inspired by a journey I had made just three days after an earthquake. And I speak not only of the film itself but also of the experience of being in that place, where only three days before 50,000 people had died.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

Close-Up is a very particular film in my oeuvre. It's a film that was made in a very particular way; mainly because I didn't really have the time to think about how to go about making the film.