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Quotes by Director
"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
139
"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."
64
"I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me."
53
"The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them."
48
"I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself."
44
"Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me."
43
"I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened."
42
"When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit."
39
"Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it."
38
"I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology."
36
"The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along."
35
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
35
"Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined."
Film,
33
"When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour."
33
"Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with."
32
"Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them."
31
"I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here."
30
"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."
29
"Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?"
29
"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."
28
"When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film."
28
"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films."
28
"I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film."
27
"If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way."
27
"For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad."
27
"It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body."
26
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