Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.