Being A Writer-director Can Sometimes Make You

As A Teenager I Was Obsessed With Music And With Writing And Performing Songs.

[abbas Kiarostami] Is A Great Artist And A Poet. I Sometimes Think That If Samuel Beckett Made Films, He'd Make Them Like Kiarostami Makes Them.

The Only Lesson To Extract From Any Civil War Is That It's Pointless And Futile And Ugly, And That There Is Nothing Glamorous Or Heroic About It. There Are Heroes, But The Causes Are Never Heroic.

No Studio In Hollywood Wanted 'cold Mountain.' None. No One Wanted 'ripley,' No One Wanted 'the English Patient.' That Tells You There Isn't Really An Appetite For Ambitious Movie-making Out There.

I Always Listen To Music, My Passion And Vice Is Music, I Will Be Denied Access To Heaven Because Of The Number Of Cds I Own, And I Have Gluttony For All Types And Colours Of Music.