I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

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.

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

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

Usually you don't think about re-releasing an old movie.