The Only Thing That I Can Do

The Film [close Up] Made Itself, To A Large Extent. The Characters Involved Were Very Real, I Wasn't Directing The Actors So Much As Being Directed By Them. So It Was A Very Particular Film.

I Never Intended To Write Poems, Nor To Be A Photographer, Nor To Be A Film-maker. I Just Took Many, Many Pictures And I Would Put Them In An Album, And Then Some Years Later I Decided To Show Them And Suddenly I Was Called A Photographer. Same Thing With My Poetry. They're Notes That I'd Written In A Book And It May Be Considered Poetry.

I Wasn't Searching For A Common Denominator - I Started Wondering About The Challenge Of Working In Other Cultures. What I Reached Was The Sudden Acknowledgment Of The Universal Aspect Of Filmmaking.

Those Same People, When They Leave The Theater, When They Look Behind The Curtains They Are Curious About Their Neighbors, They Can Guess If Their Neighbors Are Siblings Or A Couple, How Old They Are, What Their Occupation Is. They Are Curious About Each Other And They Can Understand Each Other Without Being Fed Information. Why Should It Be Different In Cinema?

My Films Have Been Progressing Towards A Certain Kind Of Minimalism, Even Though It Was Never Intended. Elements Which Can Be Eliminated Have Been Eliminated.