I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

George W.Bush can go and kill thousands of Iraqis every day. By making people believe they are the enemy, and not human beings any more. If evil has an address, a nationality, you can exterminate all of them. This is fascism.

Cinema is a world of imagination.