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

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

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.

I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.