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.

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

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.

We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

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.