Liberation didn't solve anything. It just opened up the doors to greed. Some people mix up sex now as if they were eating or drinking like crazy.

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

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.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

You suffer when you give birth, it doesn't matter, it's nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they're terrible, you'll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don't speak about cancer.

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

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