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I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.

My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.

I am very filmi by nature.

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.