I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever, because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together.

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

Emotions kick up. You try not to kick things up, but you go through things you can't help.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.