I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
When I make a documentary I shoot very little but I hang around with my camera for a long time. I look at the… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I went to England when I was 13-years=old and then I went again when I was 14. When I went for the second time… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries. — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a sense you… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is nothing else… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors.… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
