First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.
What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.
Memories are doing funny things to us.
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.
I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.
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.