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

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

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.

I can't do a million things anymore like I could when I was younger.

Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you.

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.