To 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.

I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.

I think my mother became the muse because she had everything when she was in Hollywood: she had the marriage, the success, the money, all the films she wanted to do and yet even her, she had a longing and wanted to work with a film that had meaning, something more profound. And I think that was very touching to father.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

What I think has been wonderful about my life is that it has been diverse, and that I've been able to do so many different things. I was able to evolve from modeling into acting. And then when acting opportunities became limited because of my age, I was able to become a writer and director and author. So, I am grateful to myself that I didn't just sit around and become nostalgic about the past that has been and can't come back, but that I instead decided to move on.

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.