I Try To Address My Audiences Intelligently.

I Think A Film Should Have A Gestation Period Of At Least Two Or Three Years.

I Began To Feel That, In A Sense, We Were All Prisoners Of Our Own History.

Making The City Of Joy Gave Me The Best Political Education Of My Life. It Became A Wrestling Match Between An Englishman Who Had Gradually Ceased To Be A Marxist, And A Culture That Was Becoming More Marxist By The Day.

We're A Strange Animal, So Often Destroying What We Love For Selfish Ends, And Yet Tantalized By The Sense That There Are Other Choices If Only We Had Strength To Make Them. In The Politics Of 400 Years Ago, We Find The Same Questions We Battle With Today.

Very Good Coaches For Ski Jumpers Stand At The Top Of The Slope And Watch The Jumpers Prepare, Rather Than Standing At The Bottom And Watching Them Land.