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

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

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

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.

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

The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?

Before you say cut, wait 5 seconds