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.

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

Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been perplexed, looking for something I could not define to myself, a certain book has turned up, approached me as a friend would. And between it's cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.

It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions portrayed; it is only the untalented who make their own limitations those of the actors as well.

I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

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

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.