If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.