There Is Nothing That Says More About

I Have No Idea Who The Characters Are, Later, Their Personalities Take Over Anything I Might Want To Do. I End Up Writing Not From My Own Will, But From Theirs-they Come Alive As I Write And Make Me Do Things That I Couldn't Have Planned.

During The Shooting Of A Scene The Director’s Eye Has To Catch Even The Minutest Detail. But This Does Not Mean Glaring Concentratedly At The Set. While The Cameras Are Rolling, I Rarely Look Directly At The Actors, But Focus My Gaze Somewhere Else. By Doing This I Sense Instantly When Something Isn’t Right. Watching Something Does Not Mean Fixing Your Gaze On It, But Being Aware Of It In A Natural Way. I Believe This Is What The Medieval Noh Playwright And Theorist Zeami Meant By ‘watching With A Detached Gaze.’

In Order To Find Reality, Each Must Search For His Own Universe, Look For The Details That Contribute To This Reality7 That One Feels Under The Surface Of Things. To Be An Artist Means To Search, To Find And Look At These Realities. To Be An Artist Means Never To Look Away.

For Me, Filmmaking Combines Everything. That's The Reason I've Made Cinema My Life's Work. In Films, Painting And Literature, Theatre And Music Come Together. But A Film Is Still A Film.

When I Start On A Film I Always Have A Number Of Ideas About My Project. Then One Of Them Begins To Germinate, To Sprout, And It Is This, Which I Take And Work With. My Films Come From My Need To Say A Particular Thing At A Particular Time. The Beginning Of Any Film For Me Is This Need To Express Something. It Is To Make It Nurture And Grow That I Write My Script- It Is Directing It That Makes My Tree Blossom And Bear Fruit.