I Think Life Is So Difficult To

When We Start Shooting I Don't Have Rehearsals With Characters At All. So, Rather Than Pulling Them Towards Myself, I Travel Closer To Them; It's Very Much Closer To The Real Person Than Anything I Try To Create. So I Give Them Something But I Also Take From Them.

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 Had Intended To Make Another Film, Called Pocket Money, Which Was To Be About Children At A School. I Was Very Much Intrigued By The Story [of Close Up] - It Came Into My Dreams And I Was Very Much Influenced By It. So I Called My Producer And Asked That We Put Aside Pocket Money And Start Something Else, And He Agreed.

While Shooting Ten I Was Sitting In The Backseat, But I Didn't Interfere. Sometimes, I Was Following In Another Car, So I Was Not Even Present On The "set", Because I Thought They Would Work Better In My Absence.

If We're Not Going To Take Full Advantage Of Digital, Then 35mm Is A Better Medium. Especially For Shooting Dramas - I Have No Problem With 35mm.