I Have Been Vain Since Birth.

I Don't See That Many Plays, And For Me, Musicals Are Rarely Pleasing.

The Life Of An Actor Can Be Very Enviable.

If My Relation To Each And Every Peasant In Cambodia Is Indeed Exactly What The Principles Of Morality Would Demand It To Be, It's A Miraculous Coincidence, Because It Takes A Lot Of Effort To Behave Correctly In Regard To My Friends, And From One End Of The Year To Another I Never Give Those Peasants A Single Thought.

I Grew Up In A Very Polite Family, And I Suppose My Parents Were Both Very Polite, And From The Time I Was A Young Boy, I Suspected That There Were Passions Seething Underneath And Not Being Mentioned, And That Was Something That Came To Preoccupy Me. Somehow I Had Some Drive To Write Down What People Might Really Be Thinking.

I Think I'm Trying To Write Truthfully About Life, And Naturalism, Or The Way People Normally Talk In Movies, Is A Convention. It's Not The Way People Talk In Life At All.