I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.

Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking.

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.