When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.

When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.

You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

I have never given up on men easily.

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

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.

I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.

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 don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.