The Day We Run Out Of Petrol

The Fact Of Having This Very New Context, This Unheard-of Way Of Working, For Me Was Very Pleasant. I Didn't Feel That I Was Working, That I Had Any Kind Of Burden To Wear, To Carry. I Really Was Very Happy And Very Lighthearted During The Whole Process Of Making The Film [certified Copy], Of Shooting It.

I Did Not Have A Script [of Close Up]. I Made Notes In The Evenings And We Filmed During The Day Over 40 Days.i Didn't Sleep A Wink For Those 40 Nights. I Have A Picture From The End Of The Shoot, And In It I Have Lost All My Hair.

A Digital Camera Does Have Many Advantages And I Was A Believer That Digital Video Would Be A Big Influence On Film-making.

I Don't Have Very Complete Scripts For My Films. I Have A General Outline And A Character In My Mind, And I Make No Notes Until I Find The Character Who's In My Mind In Reality.

When The Film [certified Copy] Was In The Cannes Festival, I Realized That The Fact Of Having It Shot In A Different Culture, In A Different Language, In A Different Setting, That Wasn't Mine And That I Didn't Belong To, Gave Me A Totally Different Relationship To The Film. When I Was Sitting In The Audience During The Official Screening In Cannes, I Didn't Feel That It Was My Film.