It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.

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

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

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

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.

To be a great director, what does it mean exactly? It's not only about a great director, but also about being able to rely on the very special chemistry that goes between them. It not only has to be a great director, but the great director has to make his relationship to you, the actor, very special.

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