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

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

To be "here and now," in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.

You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.

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

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.

Of course you have to create the conditions of a certain belief. And maybe ignoring something that you don't want to see, at least for the time of the shooting.