I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.

Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.