If I Do Continue To Have The

Of The Hundreds Of Points To Enter And Exit That Are Offered To Me, I Have To Choose The One That I Feel Is The Least Wrong, The Least Fake. It Is Fake, It Is A Moment That I Choose To Erupt The Story, But I Make It As Smooth As I Can. What Enables Me To Do It Is The Skill Of Filmmaking.

In Order To Be Universal, You Have To Be Rooted In Your Own Culture.

I Think The Contrast Between These Two In The Professional World Of Cinema Mattered To Me. One Who Has Reached The Ultimate Point Of Being A Star, Who Knows How To Do Everything Very Well, Facing Another Person Who Would Throughout The Making Of The Film Transfer His Anxiety To Both Of Us, To Me And To Juliette, As To Whether Or Not He Would Be Capable Of Fulfilling His Role. This In Itself Created A Challenge That Was Actually Very Good For Me, Since I Hadn't Ever Counterposed Two Such Performers Before, Creating That Challenge Between Someone Who Knows Their Part And Someone Who Doesn't.

I Prefer The Countryside To Cities. This Is Also True Of My Films: I Have Made More Films In Rural Societies, And Villages, Than In Towns.

I Do Think That We Are Sometimes, As Directors, Guilty Of Portraying Or Asking Our Actors To Behave In Certain Ways That Are Perhaps Not Very Morally Acceptable. I'm Not The Only One.