I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.

The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep from having contempt by admitting that you don't know. Even if you know a lot compared to some other people, usually, I think, the honest experience would be: "God, how little I know! And how much I need to have compassion for myself and for other people."

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.