Pina Bausch's motto was "Dance, otherwise we are lost." She really meant it, that dance was her answer to life and to the troubles and to the problems that can arise. That was her way to deal with everything, to dance.

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

The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else out there.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

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.

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.