Even if you feel all right, tell the actors you don't have full power, and they will help you.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art to contain a touch of melancholia. So melancholia in itself is a value. Unhappy and unrequited love is more romantic than happy love. For we don’t think that’s completely real, do we?…Longing is true. It may be that there’s no truth at all to long for, but the longing itself is true. Just like pain is true. We feel it inside. It’s part of our reality.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.