Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.