I don't think I'm a perfect mother. I think I'm trying my best. I think it's complicated, it's difficult. I think I'm learning from my kids so much to be their mother. I don't think you're born a mother, I think you become a mother.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

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

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.