It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

What it really is and what I now have experienced is that, people who take enormous pride in what they're doing - not in their person - that their work ethos is as high as nowhere else.That they love their jobs, they love to do their jobs properly as best they can. And coupled with the financial umph, you know, you get decent results.