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I Only Have One Obsession - Not To Be Boring.

I Watched A Lot Of Movies From All Over The World. The Russians Were Very Good At Editing. They Were Specialists In Editing. The Man With A Camera, If You Know That Movie, Is Incredible. I Still Don't Understand How It Works. It's A Movie With No Script, No Actors And Still It Works. It's Really Good. It's Really About Editing.

Sometimes I Think You Have To Try To Do Things That People Don't Think Are Doable. I Remember At The Very Beginning Actually, The First Person I Had To Convince Was Myself Really Because There's A Self-censorship. When Everybody Says 'we Don't Do Silent Movies Anymore,' You Agree With Everybody, And You Say 'yeah, You're Right.' It Was A Fantasy.

The Fact That I Made A Special Movie With An Old-fashioned Style - Even If It's A Mix Between With Modern And Old-fashioned Things - Must Mean I Feel Both Ways About Change. In A Way I'm Resisting, But In A Way Adapting Myself To The Times.

I Watched A Lot Of Silent Directors Who Were Absolutely Great Like John Ford And Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, And Also Some Very Modern Directors Like The Coen Brothers. The Directors Take The Freedom Within Their Own Movies To Be Melodramatic Or Funny When They Chose To Be. They Do Whatever They Want And They Don't Care About The Genre.