When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.

Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering."

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

I'm not beautiful; I clean up nice.

The French always seemed to be so chic. The food was better, the clothes were better, the makeup was better, the hair was better. Everything was better in France.