What does that prove for later on? Probably not much, because now the event really starts.

The goal of simplifying the nationality rule is to diminish the costs and thereby make the competition accessible to more challengers.

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.