“[Translated] So I look around... And I see Bicycle Thieves here. I want to take this one. This one film had a major impact on my cinema. It was when I saw this film that I knew what I wanted to pursue, what type of films I was after. It opened my path to social cinema. In fact, my film Circle could be just like it, in a way. I mean, like how in Bicycle Thieves, Ricci's bicycle is stolen, and he goes out into the chilly air. His son follows him. In the end, he sees a bicycle and gets close and wishes to steal it to end his misery. I projected the same thing in Circle, in a different form, where the news of a child's birth is given through a window... Which opens, and that window in the prison then gets shut. I mean the scene repeats in a way, and it seems as if it's impossible to get out of that circle. Of course, my society's conditions have been such that you really set out from a place only to circle back to it, as if there's no way out. But it's different in my latest film, It Was Just an Accident. It's as if you can step out. The circle is breakable. My film has more of that hope. Anyway, this is the film I'm choosing. I already have a copy at home, but given this occasion I'm taking this one with me. Thank you.”
