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.

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

I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up feeling lonely when you are with someone else. Some people would be better off alone, but they feel they've got to get hold of someone to prove they're worthwhile.

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.

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

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