We understand the concept of equality, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I don't think anybody really wants to be equal. Everybody wants to be more equal.

I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

Interior liberty is universal.

The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.