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When you’re writing, you are always thinking of the reader, but that reader ultimately has to be yourself. If you discover, Wait, this sentence isn’t quite right, that’s the reader in you, the part of you whose taste has been shaped by hundreds of great works of literature, speaking up. A writer …

I always felt that writing short stories was more of a job. I could complete them on a schedule—they were inevitably finished within a day, or a few. Novels are impossible to execute that way. Over the years that you work, your sense of the book shifts. You deepen your understanding of your charact…

The cinema was an explosion of my love for reality.
Pier Paolo Pasolini B: 1922 / N: Italian

The films of Italian polymath Pier Paolo Pasolini demonstrate that the term 'reality' can be subject to multiple definitions. The concept of his 1964 film The Gospel According to St Matthew was to pre…

As a filmmaker, you have to believe in the people - in their power - because if you do not believe in the people, then why do you make film... for what? Béla Tarr B: 1955 / N: Hungarian

Hungarian writer-director Béla Tarr plays 45pm genre film records at 33rpm speed. He uses cuts very sparingl…

AN INTERVIEW WITH ISABEL SANDOVAL

'I feel like the best films are essentially a Rorschach test!

You're interested in something you refer to as 'sensual cinema' - could you define what that is?

For me, sensual cinema is really about desire. And I think that's one of the main reasons why w…