Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

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.

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.

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

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.

It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.

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