[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.

I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

Whoever would like to look and see what someone is saying behind all the show, glitter, scenery, whatever it may be, and see what ideas are being expressed beyond and below and above that, can do that, as well.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation that somebody who wants to understand America doesn't really need to visit it much.