With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.

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.'

The complete absence of the story - that was the best thing about this whole thing, because you know that nothing's going to happen and everything's going to happen. It's just the gaze. You create your own zone.

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