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.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time.

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

Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age.

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

Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn't excite us to imagine two men together.