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

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 have the experience of age and suffering.

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

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.

I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side.