The world of fashion. I'm interested in the world, not in fashion! But, maybe I was too quick to put down fashion. Why not look at it without prejudice? Why not examine it like any other industry, like the movies for example?

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

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

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

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.

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.

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.