As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.