I Never Reflect Or Convey That Which

It's Very True That Non-actors Feel More Comfortable In Front Of A Digital Camera, Without The Lights And The Large Crowd Around Them, And We Arrive At Much More Intimate Moments With Them.

Close-up Is A Very Particular Film In My Oeuvre. It's A Film That Was Made In A Very Particular Way; Mainly Because I Didn't Really Have The Time To Think About How To Go About Making The Film.

I Think, Just As Footballers Play Better At Home, Maybe Film-makers, Too, Create Better At Home, Even Though The Rules Of Football Are The Same Wherever You Go.

As Film-makers, It Is Very Important For Us To Find Common Ground Between Cultures, And Maybe That's Less The Case For Politicians Who Benefit More From Finding The Conflicts And Differences Between Us.

I Don't Ask My Students To Have Studied Film Or Any Education In General. What I Ask Them Is To Come And Sit And Tell Me A Story, And The Way They Choose It And Tell It, For Me, The Best Criteria For Whether They Are Right For Making Films. There's Nothing More Important Than Being Able To Tell Your Story Orally.