Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.
Isabella RosselliniTo me, it is very important to have perfume in which it is hard to recognize a particular flower or scent. That gives a touch of mystery.
Isabella RosselliniYou dont do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.
Isabella RosselliniBut my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
Isabella RosselliniIn interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I don't think aging is a problem ... I'm so surprised that the emphasis on aging here is on physical decay, when aging brings such incredible freedom. Now what I want most is laughs. I don't want to hurt anybody by laughing -- there is no meanness to it. I just want to laugh.
Isabella Rossellini