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I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

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

I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.