The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

Filming is repetition and many takes

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor