I Started In Theater And

I Think In The '80s, When I Started Making Films, We Were All Suspicious Of These Technologies. We Were All Convinced They Would Filter Out Any Emotion And Sense Of Intimacy, And The Films I Made During That Period Reflected That. In Fact, What Has Happened Is The Opposite. I Think We're Saturated With A Degree Of Intimacy We Would Never Have Expected, And We're Trying To Sort Through This Idea Of Complete Access To Each Other's Lives On An Ongoing Basis. Our Emotions Aren't Filtered Out At All. They're Actually Accelerated.

I Do Think You Fall In Love When You Feel That Something Of Your Story Is Being Listened To For The First Time, Or You Feel Someone Else Is Hearing It As No One Else Has Ever Done.

You Can Talk About Holocaust Denial, But It's Really Marginal For The Most Part. What Is Compelling About The Armenian Genocide, Is How It Has Been Forgotten.

There Is A Certain Moment In The Film When The Son Is In The Nursing Home And He Goes To The Television And Turns It Off Because He Sees Himself In The Image.

Don’t Get Depressed About Not Being Where You Want To Be. This Nagging Feeling Of Anxiety Is Actually Called Ambition. Ambition Is Your Friend.