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We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

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

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.