I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

I think that if you're a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.

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.

I don't ask my students to have studied film or any education in general. What I ask them is to come and sit and tell me a story, and the way they choose it and tell it, for me, the best criteria for whether they are right for making films. There's nothing more important than being able to tell your story orally.

I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures and I would put them in an album, and then some years later I decided to show them and suddenly I was called a photographer. Same thing with my poetry. They're notes that I'd written in a book and it may be considered poetry.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.