I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.

Acting is not my language at all.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.