If We're Not Going To Take Full

When You Take A Tree That Is Rooted In The Ground, And Transfer It From One Place To Another, The Tree Will No Longer Bear Fruit. And If It Does, The Fruit Will Not Be As Good As It Was In Its Original Place. This Is A Rule Of Nature. I Think If I Had Left My Country, I Would Be The Same As The Tree.

I Only Make Notes, I Don't Write Dialogues In Full. And The Notes Are Very Much Based On My Knowledge Of Person.

I Think Being Someone In Love Is So Hard To Define, So Temporary, Because Retrospectively We Often Deny The State In Which We Were In Love.

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.

Close-up Is A Very Particular Film In My Oeuvre. It's A Film That Was Made In A Very Particular Way; Mainly Because I Didn't Really Have The Time To Think About How To Go About Making The Film.