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

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

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.

I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations, and German translations, and I did everything to make the best English translation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie I could. And then, there I went. "Oh! I think she's thinking this, but I think she should say it!" And so on. It's wonderful to do that.

I realize that we've come to a different way of showing movies. But I'm still with the old ways, and I can't change.

We need feminist voices today, you know. In my time, we had incredible feminist voices and I'm sure we have it today, too, but in all the massive outlets, maybe the one or two or three voices are somehow disappearing.

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