I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.

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 don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

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.

Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

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

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.