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I Often Say To My Students In Workshops That If They Are Trying To Find Literary Inspiration, They Should Not Go And Read Novels, Because Novels Are More Appropriate For Series. Where As They Should Read Short Stories - That's The Right Format For You To Be Able To Actually Display The Narrative In A Film.

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.

I Never Intended To Write Poems, Nor To Be A Photographer, Nor To Be A Film-maker. I Just Took Many, Many Pictures And I Would Put Them In An Album, And Then Some Years Later I Decided To Show Them And Suddenly I Was Called A Photographer. Same Thing With My Poetry. They're Notes That I'd Written In A Book And It May Be Considered Poetry.

I Saw This French Woman, This English Man In Italy. It Was A Film [certified Copy] I Knew Well, But I Had Already Seen It, And I Was Familiar With It, And I Had No Feeling Of Anxiety Or Responsibility Toward It.

When I Find The Character, I Try To Spend Time With Them And Get To Know Them Very Well. Therefore My Notes Are Not From The Character That I Had In My Mind Before, But Are Instead Based On The People I've Met In Real Life.