I never fell in love with another woman. I cannot have a relationship with a woman if I'm not in love...I'm a very particular person, I'm not very much interested in short adventures with women or girls. I have to fall in love with someone in order to have a realtionship with her.

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.

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

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.

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

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

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.