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The Difficulty, Then, Is When You Create A Church, An Institution, And You Create A Dogma. When You Create An Ideology, That's The Danger. Communism, Too, Is A Beautiful Idea, But Millions Of People Died When Communism Became An Ideology.

I'm Not Someone Who Enjoys Long Talks, Long Rehearsals. I'm Very Technical: I Tell My Actors, You Come In, You Sit Down, You Pick Up A Coffee, You Look Here, You Say The Line. We Try It With The Cameras Rolling, And If It Doesn't Work, We Adjust It Until It Does. It's Very Simple.

A Strict Form Such As Mine Cannot Be Achieved Through Improvisation.

The Smaller And Younger Kids Are, The More Patient You Have To Be. But If They're Gifted, Then It's A Wonderful Present That You're Given By Having A Child Like That In Your Film... More So Than In The Case Of Actors Because, For Example, If You Ask Them To Play A Lion, They Don't Then Play A Lion, They Actually Are A Lion. So, A Gifted Child Is Something Very Special. On The Other Hand, If A Child Has No Gifts In That Way It's Absolutely Hopeless And There's Nothing You Can Do!

What I Like Are Films That Take Me Seriously, That Don't Treat Me As More Stupid Than I Am.