We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.