I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.

I would rather be on the set than doing anything.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

I have no great message to the world.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

When I was talking with Shanghai, I was talking to big clubs from Europe, as well. There was Atletico Madrid, who I almost joined. I liked them very much and what they were offering me at the time. There was also Juventus, Inter Milan, and AC Milan. I had some options.

I have always worn the No.10 shirt when I played at lower levels and, obviously, my reference point was always Pele and then Ronaldinho.

It was just great to wear the Brazil shirt in the senior team for the first time. I'd already worn it before playing for various age groups in the youth teams but it's very different playing for the Brazilian first team.

Playing for Chelsea doesn't compare to the pressure of playing for Brazil because we've won the World Cup five times. It's not only a massive country but football is part of the culture. They always want you to win, so you can never have an off-day.

In the Premier League, they don't give a foul even when it is a foul. We can't dive or pretend things.

I chose Chelsea because I always wanted to play in Europe for one of the biggest clubs. And I'm glad I did.

The best players in the world play in Europe so that's where you want to go when you play in Brazil.

When my agent told me that Chelsea were interested it was not something I even needed to think about.

I played in a city in Brazil where there are only two big clubs and Internacional versus Gremio was unbelievable - the pressure, the team atmosphere and everybody flying on the adrenalin.

Didier is a Chelsea legend and a senior player. I am happy for him to take the 11 and for me to take the 8.

Before every game I pray, I find solace. It helps me to relax and prepare.

I used to watch English football on TV when I was younger in Brazil. I already knew it was a dynamic, competitive and fast way of playing. When I got here, I just confirmed all of that.

David Luiz is also a great player. More than anything he's a great guy off the pitch too.

Every football player, or every person who works, wants to earn money to help their families.

I have learned from past experience with Internacional that you have to take one game at a time.

It is good for football that the game grows in new areas of the world.

Here in England, you do need to be firmer, harder on the pitch. That's just the way it is.

Felipao is one of the best coaches in the world.

A month before signing for Chelsea I was very close to doing so with Real Madrid as Mourinho said he wanted me.

I came from a social background in Brazil that is very poor. We didn't have anything.

I would like to clarify that Diego and I are very, very good friends we spend a lot of time together on and off the pitch and our families are great friends. We have absolutely no issues whatsoever.

Of course I support Chelsea.

If people want to say I seem too nice to be a footballer, that's good. It's just the way I am.

I think the Chinese clubs put up a lot of money for the players who go to China, to make the Chinese league stronger.

My father loved to play the game, he never became a professional but when he was younger everyone would say he was good enough and when I heard people talking about him, I wanted to emulate him. So I started to play.

Sometimes I've ended up not playing the entire match, but I'm doing my best to fulfil my role.

I have always wanted to play in the Champions League and who wouldn't want to play for the European champions?

The long-distance ones are the most common goals I have scored.