I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.

I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong to lots of parts of the world. Not just America.

[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.

America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.