it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

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 looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

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.

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