I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.

I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.