In every religion, you find the same extremists.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

War always takes you by surprise.

You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in a culture of images. People are used to seeing stories that way. They understand looking at pictures.

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.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.