One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.

When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.

Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.