Working On The Themes I Was Interested

You Can Talk About Holocaust Denial, But It's Really Marginal For The Most Part. What Is Compelling About The Armenian Genocide, Is How It Has Been Forgotten.

That's A Very Odd Notion Because It Involves Seeing Money Up There On The Screen - If Something Cost $5 Million To Make, They Want To See That $5 Million Up There.

I Think In The '80s, When I Started Making Films, We Were All Suspicious Of These Technologies. We Were All Convinced They Would Filter Out Any Emotion And Sense Of Intimacy, And The Films I Made During That Period Reflected That. In Fact, What Has Happened Is The Opposite. I Think We're Saturated With A Degree Of Intimacy We Would Never Have Expected, And We're Trying To Sort Through This Idea Of Complete Access To Each Other's Lives On An Ongoing Basis. Our Emotions Aren't Filtered Out At All. They're Actually Accelerated.

Every Actor Has A Different Temperament. Part Of My Job Is To Know What Those Boundaries Are. The Actor Has To Know You'll Be There At The Other End, That You're Trying To Represent Them In The Best Light, Who They Are As They're Harnessing These Roles. The Methods Vary From Actor To Actor.

Working On The Themes I Was Interested In, Through The Context Of A Particular Family, Was A Very Economical Way Of Dealing With A Lot Of The Issues I Was Concerned With.