I hope that the entertainment I give has some lasting effect on people. I hope they see the beauty that I myself am seeking. I am trying to express a beauty that embraces not only physical characteristics and scenes, but the true fundamental emotions of humanity. Beauty. Beauty is what I am after.

What a sad business, being funny.

You don't expect music to be brilliant when the films are so bad.

The roses you lifted to your lips ... lucky roses!

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.