I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.

We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.

A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

The mental mist of ambiguity and the fog of ambivalence hamper human existence.

As writers, we should remind ourselves, and each other, that Jane Austen and JK Rowling got rejected by publishers, too.

If you want to become successful, then first become the person who can be successful.

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.