Cinema was my rite of passage.
I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.
And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.
I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.
The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.
Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.