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

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.

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection. I get moved by the wrinkles on the throat of a man. It makes me love him more. I think it is sad that more women don't take the chance that maybe men will be moved by seeing the chin a little less firm than it used to be, that a man will be more in love with his wife because he remembers who she was and sees who she is and thinks, God, isn't that lovely that this happened to her. And be moved by life telling its story there.