I'm moving to a new house. I moved away from where I was born. I lived there for 44 years, so I just moved. So I'm actually trying to grow up. And I got myself a sports car, that's fantastic, an Alfa Romeo Spider. It's a two-seater. I have four children. I feel like I'm 18 years old. |
I'm much calmer. We had a lot of time problems going to Cannes. The print was ready one day before it was shown. Now I feel very good. |
I've taken the circuitous path of being interested in people. |
Idiocy is like hypnosis or ejaculation: if you want it, you can't have it-and if you don't want it, you can. |
If Breaking the Waves had been rendered with a conventional technique, I don't think you could have tolerated the story. |
If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me. |
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart. |
If something can actually be said about politics in my films, |
If you are using a 35 mm camera, it typically means shoulder mounted-and we actually constructed a shoulder mount for the small video-cameras. So you can discuss where the limit is with all the various ways you can attach a camera to a cameraman. |
If you examine the history of the cinema the way I'm constantly doing, I've tried to seek some of the lightness and enjoyment possessed by the films I refer to. |
If you go on correcting a script, you may lose your enthusiasm. It almost happened in this process, too, when we spent ages changing scenes and moving back and forth; but in the end we returned to the original, and the final version of the film is very close to the script. |
If you tell a man what to do in real life, to which extent is it reality and to which extent are you in control? |
In many ways I also have an understanding for-or rather, that people are engaged by spiritual questions and that they are so in an extreme manner. It is just that, if you want to create a melodrama, you have to furnish it with certain obstacles. |
In many ways the six weeks of shooting was the most intense film experience I've ever had. |
In the earlier films, it was a conscious decision not to be too close to the actors. |