But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people

But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

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.

I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.