Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

I don't think I'm that intellectual.

One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.

The big problem in the world is when people are forced to be in a totally foreign context.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.

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.