Death is what makes life an event.

When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.