There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.

Paris is different from LA in regards to its historical architecture. I think that's what gives Paris it's charm and beauty.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

I think art is the imperfectly perfect or perfectly imperfect way of self-expression.

I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.