To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.

What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.