Quotes

One evening, a 35-year-old woman in tennis shoes and an old sweater rang the doorbell, stuck a foot in the door and said: "I want to kill you - your son, as well!" The cops arrested her - and told me she wasn't dangerous. I replied: "That woman had a gun. Next time, I'll phone you after I'm dead." I later learned she was a frustrated actress.

[on her role in Marathon Man (1976)] You know, when I got the script, when I read the book, it was a kind of Mata Hari [role]. Though I think it's more interesting to have only a real relationship between persons. And I think Dustin Hoffman is too intelligent to have only a very beautiful lady. She must have something else. Not only beautiful, you know what I mean? And we changed it. We wrote other scenes. And it changed. We get enough of relationship. And now I like it. I like it well, this part.

[on her role in Marathon Man (1976)] Once you have unfortunately an accent, which everybody knows I have, you get those kind of parts, which are sometimes a little bit the villain parts. Those characters are very interesting to play, like Lady Macbeth. But after a while, I stopped. I don't want it anymore. I don't want to be a bad girl. I'm not a bad girl - I'm blond. [laughs]

[on 'Un Certain Regard' at the Cannes Film Festival] In a first film, as in any first time, there is a purity, an astonishment that is never to be found again, an irrepressible desire to show us and to tell us something. [2016]