To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.

When there's a good script, everybody circles.

The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.

'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it's the thing that I needed to do.