Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.

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.

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.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

I believe there's only good cinema and bad cinema.