It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don….

This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a sense you have to love the people i….

We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors. You can'….

When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit a….

I like to get something that is impossible to verbally order. Sometimes it's something the person is not even conscious of, and it's something you co….

The cinematography was of course incredibly important to me because I graduated as a cinematographer..

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries..

Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it….

I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so fed up with the world….

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a ….

I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor you'll always get bad acting. Every ….

At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childh….

You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history..

In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that….

If you fill your time as a director talking about lights and technique with the crew then it's frightening for the actors to be left alone. Somebody ….

As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally accept tha….

If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2 million climaxes, which fill the whole 90 or….

I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is nothing else in the world except film. At some poi….

When I make a documentary I shoot very little but I hang around with my camera for a long time. I look at the people for a long time through the loop….

I went to England when I was 13-years=old and then I went again when I was 14. When I went for the second time I felt like the first summer I was the….

There is one thing where people are always right. It is when they are describing what they have been feeling when watching your film. You cannot say:….