Pedro Almodóvar asked me to watch italian films again as homework to look at the energy of all those women from the Italian neo-realist films. A lot of them had those characters that represented motherhood. For some reason, in the '50s in Italy, the mother figure was very important - and my character needed to have that energy.

My ambition is to be happy.

I realized that when two people function well together at work, it doesn't matter if they hadn't seen each other for years. What they had before was still intact.

I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.

Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.

It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.

When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard work.