Cinema Seats Make People Lazy. They Expect

People Have Curiosity, They Have Intelligence, They Have Interest In Understanding Their Peers. But Producers And Directors Of Cinema Have Decided That The Seats In The Theaters Have Been Made To Transform People's Minds To Lazy Minds.

I Have Received The Digital Camera As A Blessing. It Has Really Changed My Life As A Filmmaker, Because I Don't Use My Camera Anymore As A Camera. I Don't Feel It As A Camera. I Feel It As A Friend, As Something That Doesn't Make An Impression On People, That Doesn't Make Them Feel Uncomfortable, And That Is Completely Forgotten In My Way Of Approaching Life And People And Film.

What I Am Trying To Say Is That It Is Not Without Any Value. The Value Of Copies Is That They Can Direct Us Towards The Original. I Was Recently At The Louvre Museum And I Was Filming People Who Were Viewing The Mona Lisa. I Noticed The Number Of Ordinary People, Astonished, Mouths Agape, Standing Still For Long Stretches Looking At The Work, And I Wondered, "where Does This Come From? Are These People All Art Connoisseurs?" They Are Like Me; Through The Years, We've Seen This Work In Our Schoolbooks Or Art History Books, But When We Stand Before The Original, We Hold Our Breath.

I Didn't Just See Myself As A Film Director Here [in Life And Nothing More], But Also As An Observer Of People Who Had Been Condemned To Death.

Not That I Ever Felt The Necessity Of Proving That All Human Beings Suffer The Same Way, Feel Joy The Same Way, But It Happened On My Way - When I Get Close To These People, Just By The Simple Intervention Of Translation I Can Actually Reach Them And Ask Them Something, And Their Reaction Is As I Expected. I See That The Relationship Goes So Smoothly, And I Realize That Cultural Languages And Specificities Are Nothing But Simple Obstacles That You Can Easily Overcome. It's Obvious That Human Beings Are The Same Wherever They Are.