I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

Sometimes you don't really understand the characters you do. I don't need to. Most of the behavior is obscure and I don't mind that. On the contrary, it's a fuel for me, to find out who the character is. As the spectator is finding out, I find out about the character myself.

By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.