I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
I have never given up on men easily.
I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.
I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh.
I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.
I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.
I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.
I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.
Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.
Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.
I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.
I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.
At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.
My looks are changing obviously, so I fuss like any woman if I look tired or whatever, I put on weight and blah, blah. But some part of me is very relaxed with it all.
I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.
There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
