I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.