I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

I like actors who are themselves. I know in America you like actors who change their nose or wear a lot of wigs, and they like to take pretty girls and make them super ugly.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

I've never sent a Tweet. I think I have an account but I don't know who runs it. I've never done one in my life.

I believe in God, but I am not sure to trust Him so much.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.

Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

When I'm in northern Italy, I walk about feeling slightly less of a freak.

$For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people.$

For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people.