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.

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 actor is scared just like a regular person.

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

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

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't have to make their film.

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 short story actually.

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 childhood and adulthood.

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: No, you did not feel like that!

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 there it was a waste because I didn't exist yet.

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 of fiction, which is so money-centered.

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 you would leave the actors alone for a long time.

Your worst battle is between what you know and what you feel!

She turned and bolted out the door. She had learnt an important lesson - "When a man paid 'for' you...you paid 'to' him." It was her first Valentine slaughter.

Strong nations are built on SOLID HOMES not big houses

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.

If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus.

I love reform better than its modes.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation

We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.

Oh, I'm sorry. Did I interrupt some sort of dominance foreplay?

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.