I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.

If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.