It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.

Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

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

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.