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.

Mama wrote a letter to my father saying' I want to work with you' and she ended the letter saying' in Italian I can only say ti amo( I love you)' and of course the press used that to say women are sexual predators, in 1949 they made a first film together,' Stromboli', and they fell in love and my mother became pregnant with my brother Roberto before she could obtain a divorce.

You dont do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.

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.

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

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.