The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

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.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

I like to cook things very slowly.

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

I would like to have children while I've still got the energy. But then I have the feeling that when I have children I'll stop performing in the same way, because you don't really need to perform if you have children.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.