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?

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.

Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

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

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

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?