What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.

What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.

You really see life around the principals to be as important as the main, principal actors. That's what cinéma vérité taught me - that it's not a question of having a main character, a great actor, and the rest is unimportant. Every detail, every face in the crowd is important.

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates - starting with the fact that life becomes very boring for people who just try to survive, and are quiet, and try not to buck the system. And, of course, it can be devastating for people who try to speak against it.

When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.