I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.