We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images