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Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.

To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?