The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.

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.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. Because history is long term. But today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

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