I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.
In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

