I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.