You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

I've been to North Africa many times.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

For me, the key image is the boat coming through the fog at the beginning. It's something I imagined and liked and I guess there are other references in other films I make - the similar type of image. But I think it's interesting, it's breaking through the mystery, or maybe it stays in the fog... we don't really know. Where is he at the beginning of the film, who is he?

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

The creation of the island, or the impression of the island, as it changes in the mind of the character also came in to play... there was another very important collaborator, Rob Legato, on special visual effects. And then ultimately there's Thelma Schoonmaker, who keeps me focused during the editing of the picture.

I accept all awards. I like them.