Accepting Quote by Pirjo Honkasalo

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.

— Pirjo Honkasalo

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

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

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

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

If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2…

— Pirjo Honkasalo