I like shadows in the movies. I don't like them in life.

Memory doesn't last. When Kosovo started, they had already forgotten about Bosnia, let alone World War II. I remember after the war was over and my father returned from the concentration camp. He said, "You'll see -- fifty years from now, people will have forgot all about it."

After Sharon's death, I definitely had a strong desire to give up. Your next question will be, What prevented me? But I can't answer it. I just survived. I was simply born this way. My father survived the concentration camp. I've been asked, Why did he survive? Well, I don't know. He wanted probably more than the others to survive. It can be anything. It can be the desire for revenge. It can be a longing to see your loved ones. Truly I don't know, and I never asked myself the question.

I think you should not ask yourself too many questions. It's the centipede syndrome, you know? The centipede was asked which foot he puts after which, and he couldn't walk anymore.

Work has always sustained me.

Sex is not a pastime. It's a force, it's a drive. It changes your way of thinking.

For a long time, I didn't want children. After what happened, I didn't particularly want to get married. Children without a partner with whom you intend to share the rest of your life doesn't make much sense to me. Can you understand the way one can feel after an event like that? After losing someone who is everything to you?

Dealing with adversity is like the brake pedal in the car. It just happens instinctively. You go through it or you perish.

Kids just accept reality as it is, because they have no way of comparing it with anything else. I'm much more sensitive now to all this, having a child that goes through all these stages that I went through. She's now six: That's the age I was when the Germans walked into Poland. She's five: That's the age when my parents took me for the last holiday in the country. You see? She's seven: That's when I was running in and out of the ghetto through the hole in the barbed wire. I see it through her eyes, and it's only now that I realize that I was in harm's way. But at the time when I was a kid, no. The only tragic thing was the separation from my parents. This was something that made me cry, not that the food was bad, not that I had lice, not that there were fleas in the bed, not that there were bedbugs. And I think, you know, how tragic it would be for my daughter to go through that.

Toutes proportions gardees.

Movies always cost more than you have anticipated.

I think the Pill altered female thinking. When you think that millions of women were taking daily hormones, you cannot deny that it must have changed their personalities. I truly don't think that feminism would reach such absurd proportions if there were no Pill. It must have had an effect.

I don't think that Hollywood people like making movies. They like making deals.

After the party, you either clean up the mess or move the apartment. In general, I clean up.

There's a different justice for people who are public figures than for those who are not.

There was no plot against me. There was no setup. It was all my fault. I think that my wrongdoing was much greater than Bill Clinton's.

Pleasure is a carrot. And a stick.

I think in America, people are getting too big.

Drugs taken for recreation may be justified. Taken for any kind of positive output, I think it's laughable. Drugs alter perception, and you have to be an observer as well as a creator. You have to have a handle on what you do. If your sense of touch is impaired, you may break the handle. Or you might take it for your wife's ass.

Films are films, life is life.

Flatter actors.It's irresistible to them.

Never pull a hair from Faye Dunaway's head. Pull it from somebody else's head.

I'm not a masochist, but I always take a cold shower in the morning. It's a great beginning of the day, because nothing can be worse afterward.

Originally published in the December 1999 issue

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