We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.

You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.

Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.

I don't watch a lot of reality TV.

Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.