For the Portuguese National Television, during the 2003 Cannes Film festival, when insistently asked, upon his constant refusal to answer, diverting the talk to the Iraq war, to talk about his film project: But I don't want to talk about cinema. Cinema is not important. As any other form of Art, cinema is only important if used to open doors to discussion and to talk about the things that you don't want to hear. Otherwise it's just a mere object of vanity.