Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.