Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You have to keep a distance - and it's exactly the same with acting.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.