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

- Pirjo Honkasalo

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

- Pirjo Honkasalo

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…

- Pirjo Honkasalo

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…

- Pirjo Honkasalo

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…

- Pirjo Honkasalo

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…

- Pirjo Honkasalo

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 …

- Pirjo Honkasalo

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 …

- Pirjo Honkasalo

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…

- Pirjo Honkasalo