Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story . . . .

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.