Movies Have Heart. Have Mind. Have Power.

I Don't Regret Any Past. I Am Not There. I Am Not Sorry Not To Make Pictures, Because I Know One Day I Will Do It. I Intend To Live 150 Years.

For Many Years, I Did Pantomime With Marcel Marceau. I Was A Writer For Him And Got To Know Very Well How To Use The Body For Illustration. I Wanted To Do A Mother Without Arms, But Using The Arms Of Her Son In Santa Sangre. The Tragedy Should Always Have Something Funny. Something Weird.

This Is The Thing: Art Is More Important Than Making A Show, Something That Amuses People. Art Is Something That Needs To Give To The Public, To The Actors, To The Artist - To Give Something That Makes Life The Paradise It Can Be. Life Can Be A Paradise. Still, I Believe That. Even If There Is Trump, There Can Be A Paradise.

I Don't Think Of An Actor. I Think In The Character, And Then I Search For The Actor. Usually I'm Thinking Without Names, Because They Will Change My Idea. No Big Egos. If I Want Egos - Just Mine. That Is Enough.

Awakening Is Not A Thing. It Is Not A Goal, Not A Concept. It Is Not Something To Be Attained. It Is A Metamorphosis. If The Caterpillar Thinks About The Butterfly It Is To Become, Saying ‘and Then I Shall Have Wings And Antennae,’ There Will Never Be A Butterfly. The Caterpillar Must Accept Its Own Disappearance In Its Transformation. When The Marvelous Butterfly Takes Wing, Nothing Of The Caterpillar Remains.