I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.

It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.

We're talking a very cultivated people, but I found as cultivated as they were, they were uninformed about the personages who weren't American. They knew everything about America, but much less about other countries.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.

I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.

If a director takes the time to document - to step back to observe - I think it I more honest. Because it has to be the public that makes the conclusions and who, possibly, resolves the situation.