Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

August Strindberg gave me the opportunity to have this incredible story [Miss Julie ], about the class system, about unfairness in life, but also this story about man and woman. What I wanted, because he gave me the freedom, to give her a voice that I missed a little in her.

I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up feeling lonely when you are with someone else. Some people would be better off alone, but they feel they've got to get hold of someone to prove they're worthwhile.

If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever.