But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.

We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.

A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.

O God make us your people. Be our God!

A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!

People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

Change does not take time - it takes commitment.