There is a difference between film and digital. Because digital, you know, it's perfect and whatever. But with film, you get depth. You get subject.

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.

If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

We are equal human beings, and we were born with evil and anger and misunderstanding of what a man is, and so we are as needy and wanting to be part of him, as he, obviously, was needing and wanting to be part of us. And that's why I've really taken the freedom, because it's an adaptation, to give her a voice.

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.