Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

It is tough to be a woman. Also as an actor, but more so as a director. And even more today, when distributors and producers are looking at different kinds of films and maybe not necessarily what a woman would want to do.

Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.

I think of all the choices I never knew. And those I let be made for me - to please, from fear, for love. Where did they disappear to, those choices that I never made? They are all part of who I am. They are the legacy I leave behind, they are the finished portrait of myself I cannot change.

It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.