When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

I don't have time, because I still have so many films to see.

A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of the answers in the book.

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.