Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

One can forgive but one should never forget.

War always takes you by surprise.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.

Cinema is a world of imagination.