Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?
“You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.”
“No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.”