Of The Hundreds Of Points To Enter

It Is A Very Important Film, Life And Nothing More, In That What Was Filmed Was Inspired By A Journey I Had Made Just Three Days After An Earthquake. And I Speak Not Only Of The Film Itself But Also Of The Experience Of Being In That Place, Where Only Three Days Before 50,000 People Had Died.

I Think I'm No Different To My Friends Who Are Doctors Or Businessmen Or Architects - We All Started Watching Films Of The Golden Age Together. But Whether I'm Making Films Or Writing Poetry Or Doing Photography, It's Very Much Rooted In My Sense Of Unease. And That's Really Where Everything Goes Back To.

I Wasn't Searching For A Common Denominator - I Started Wondering About The Challenge Of Working In Other Cultures. What I Reached Was The Sudden Acknowledgment Of The Universal Aspect Of Filmmaking.

This Was Pointed Out To Me By Somebody Who Referred To The Paintings Of Rembrandt And His Use Of Light: Some Elements Are Highlighted While Others Are Obscured Or Even Pushed Back Into The Dark. And It's Something That We Do - We Bring Out Elements That We Want To Emphasise.

I Don't Have Very Complete Scripts For My Films. I Have A General Outline And A Character In My Mind, And I Make No Notes Until I Find The Character Who's In My Mind In Reality.