Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.

If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.

I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.

I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

Gena Rowlands is fabulous.