You can't do what you've been asked to do unless you do the best you can. And roughly speaking, the best you can do is to be very available as a character and actor to the people you're acting with. That's equally important, whether the camera's on the other person or on you.

We will always want films ... that basically are centred on young people, because young people is the way we live on, we older people, insofar as we live on.

There always comes a moment where all the departments in a film need to work together. And if a director, his first assistant director, and cinematographer have a very clear vision, then everybody does work together.

When somebody can't reveal what they're after - whether by word or by how the camera is set up, lighting, etcetera - it's like an electronic beep beep; it interferes very much with what we actors can do. And, after all, the director wants the actors to be bringing forth the best that they can, according to whatever vision he has.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings