I consider myself a realist who wants to stand up for women's voices, not when they try to be the same, but when they stand up for who we are and what we see and how important it is that our voice is heard.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.