It is my well. I always go to Italian films to be replenished.
I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write,
Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.
[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.
Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.
I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.