In nearly 40 years of teaching, I often received a question that I found difficult to answer. What exactly is the course I teach, what is its nature, what is its goal, what is its content? In recent years, I have obviously changed from the past, but I think I can now roughly outline what the course I teach is. It's rather the courses as a whole that I teach, the lectures, everything concerning cinema or photography. I would say I try to help my students see photography and cinema. It's a presumptuous statement because it's as if I assume they cannot see, but I believe this happens in all the arts. The familiarity, the years we who are involved have spent on this, the fact that this is our job, has helped us see things that the generally intelligent but not so familiar public does not see. Therefore, if I help my student in many ways that I discover as I progress as a teacher to see photographs, to place them, on one hand, it will increase their enjoyment by understanding more of what the photographer does and enjoy the work more, or the director in the case of cinema; on the other hand, if they attempt to do something similar, they will be able to utilize their intelligence, their talent, their capabilities. I often believe that the basic problem is that people do not enjoy because they do not understand. Consequently, when they decide to create themselves, the main problem is communication with the works of others. If they secure communication with the works of others, they will be able to achieve the utilization of their own potential. Beyond this first and primary stage of teaching, there is a second stage which I try to cover with critique classes, with commentary classes – I try to extract from the chaos of the many photos that each photographer takes those that show certain elements of a more personal approach, those that make them slightly stand out from the mass of all photographers who deal with roughly the same things and by pointing out not something good to a third party but something good, something special in themselves I push them towards that direction where it appears they can create more effectively. This is generally my course. It's not glamorous; it's quite difficult. And it's quite difficult because it awakens in the student the limits of their weakness and ignorance. The student must accept this to benefit from such a course.