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.

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

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.

I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

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

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.