Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.

The way I relax, what I like doing most, is watching. That's why I like traveling, to have new things before my eyes - even a new face. I enjoy myself like that and can stay for hours, looking at things, people, scenery.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.