When Making A Film, I'm Never Concerned

Film Is The Manipulative Medium Par Excellence. When You Think Back On The History Of Film And The 20th Century, You See The Propaganda That's Been Made. So There Are Moral Demands On The Director To Treat The Spectators As Seriously As He Or She Takes Himself And Not To See Them Merely As Victims That Can Be Manipulated To Whatever Ends They Have.

I Want To Be Able To Control Things And That's Very Difficult To Do If You're Not 100% In A Particular Language. It Makes You Uncertain And It Makes You Nervous.

What We're Doing For Another Person Is More Important Than What We're Feeling For Them.

It's Impossible To Consider Living Without Ideals. However, When Ideas Lead To Ideology, That's A Very Dangerous Thing. Ideology Then Leads To Creating The Image Of An Enemy, And It Leads To The Murder And Massacre That We've Seen Since The Beginning Of Time.

I've Never Let Producers Tell Me What To Do. Even When I Was Making Television, I Always Did What I Wanted To Do, And If I Couldn't, I Didn't Do It. It Was A Freedom That, These Days, Young Directors Starting Out Don't Have.