To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

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

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

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

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.