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

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

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

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.