In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.
The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.
It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.
When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.