My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

Art comes from life, not from the studio

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

We always think of our own profit, but not in connection to others.

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.