Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.

The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now.

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.