I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.