As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

I have no doubt who I am.

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

I've never worried about age.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Life doesn't end at 30.

Living is risking.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.