I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?

I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice

Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.