To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

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.

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.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

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.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.