Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.