Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

Very few people can afford to be poor.