I Have Always Believed That There Is

The Only Lesson To Extract From Any Civil War Is That It's Pointless And Futile And Ugly, And That There Is Nothing Glamorous Or Heroic About It. There Are Heroes, But The Causes Are Never Heroic.

[abbas Kiarostami] Is A Great Artist And A Poet. I Sometimes Think That If Samuel Beckett Made Films, He'd Make Them Like Kiarostami Makes Them.

I Am A Writer Who Was Able To Direct The Films That I Write.

Waiting Is Part Of Writing. When I Write The Word 'waiting' By Hand It Even Looks Like 'writing.'

Of Course, Like All Film-makers I've Been Mesmerised By Cinema Since I Was A Child.