So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.
This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story.
The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.
My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
In 'Expendables 2,' there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, many young people wouldn't be able to watch this. But I don't play in movies like this. Due to that, I said, 'I won't be a part of that if the hardcore language is not erased.'
When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.
I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.
When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.