“I'm not one of those cases," he says, "There are many such cases, that tell you that when they were five-years-old they had a little video camera and they filmed their clay toys and they did their little home movies. I wasn't one of those.”

In the history of cinema, filmmakers have often faced seemingly insurmountable difficulties to produce meaningful films, and time and again they have turned those challenges into creative opportunities that have expanded the palette of cinematic language.