A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films.

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

We will always want films ... that basically are centred on young people, because young people is the way we live on, we older people, insofar as we live on.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.