If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything.

I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.