Apichatpong Weerasethakul - More than my other films, Uncle Boonmee is very much about cinema, that's a

More than my other films, Uncle Boonmee is very much about cinema, that's also why it's personal. If you care to look, each reel of the film has a different style - acting style, lighting style, or cinematic references - but most of them reflect movies. I think that when you make a film about recollection and death, you have to consider that cinema is also dying - at least this kind of old cinema that nobody makes anymore.

- Apichatpong Weerasethakul

source: "Spotlight | Ghost in the Machine: Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Letter to Cinema". Interview with Mark Peranson, Kong Rithdee, cinema-scope.com.