Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

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.

If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear and see the message of a place and pass it on, into that other language, the universal one of images.

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is political...And the most politically indoctrinating thing you can do to a human being is to show him, every day, that there can be no change.