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

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

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

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.

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