It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.

I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor you'll always get bad acting. Every actor is scared just like a regular person.

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.

The cinematography was of course incredibly important to me because I graduated as a cinematographer.

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.

At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.

There is one thing where people are always right. It is when they are describing what they have been feeling when watching your film. You cannot say: No, you did not feel like that!

I went to England when I was 13-years=old and then I went again when I was 14. When I went for the second time I felt like the first summer I was there it was a waste because I didn't exist yet.

You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history.

I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so fed up with the world of fiction, which is so money-centered.

In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.

We cannot change the history of the past.

You are not better than your thought... As a man thinks so is he..

Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday!

Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.

It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.

So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.

Twitter is about the democratization of access to a platform that allows anyone in the world - who has a mobile phone and access to SMS - to have a voice and be heard.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.