 It is a very important film , Life , and Nothing More ... , in that what was filmed was inspired by a journey I had made just three days after an earthquake . And I speak not only of the film itself but also of the experience of being in that place , where only three days before 50 @,@ 000 people had died . For the survivors , it was as if they were reborn , having experienced death around them . The earthquake had happened at four or five in the morning , so in a sense everybody could have been dead and it was almost accidental that they hadn 't died . So I didn 't just see myself as a film director here , but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death . So this was a very big influence on me , and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films . . 
