“And here, there's one that I remember that I have to take too, that is To Be or Not to Be. I remember there was a student of mine in Buenos Aires, a Spanish student of mine in Buenos Aires, that he was a big fan of Lubitsch. And I haven't seen Lubitsch at that time, or I've seen one, so I was very ignorant even being a professor. And he gave me a DivX with all of his, of many of his films, and I put it, I started watching one and I watched the whole DVD in one night. And I remember this, the experience of watching To Be or Not to Be, and I thought that the movie was just like beginning and it ended, and it was amazing how the flow, no? There was something about the flow of it that surprised me. I was like absolutely captivated by it. I do films around Shakespeare that I say that they're not adaptations, and so one and I call this sort of genre that I think it for myself alone, that is this the Shakespeariads, no? They're not adaptations, they're Shakespeariads, that I drink from Shakespeare and do my own thing. And somehow I feel that there's other films that do the same, like To Be or Not to Be. It's not an adaptation. Of course, it's a masterpiece.”
