Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.