Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

There's this scene in "The Night of the Hunter" when the kids are downstairs, and you have the feeling that they're both in a room and at the same time it looks remote. And you wonder, How can you give the effect of both "inside" and "outside" at the same time. And you realize, by watching it many times, that around the scene there's this black edging.

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

War always takes you by surprise.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

I wanted to make a real love story with a bad ending, because a love story that ends good is the life of everyone - you and I, for example. I always say to people, You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them. Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, mama, mama, papa, papa.