When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.
If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.
When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.
When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.
I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. I suppose this has to do with my need to leave no stone unturned, and sometimes to even dig deeper into the mine.
You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.
A film has its own life and takes its own time.