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I always loved experimenting in film.
It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.
I believe in a set of values I cannot live by.
When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.
I seldom look at myself to avoid any self-criticism.
My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.
True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.
True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.
I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.
I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?
It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.
There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.
The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.
If you're sad and you like beer, I'm your lady, ... The Saddest Music in the World.
Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic.
I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.
The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.
Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.
If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
I don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film.
I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.
A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.
I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.
There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.
To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.
Many years in New York has made me urban, and I won't eat my chicken because I met him personally!
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
My films are comical films. They are made to laugh at. They are comical - and scientifically correct.
But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!
Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.
These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.
It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother.
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.
If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties.
I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer.
I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.
To me, it is very important to have perfume in which it is hard to recognize a particular flower or scent. That gives a touch of mystery.
You dont do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.
You don't do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.
Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.
I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl in Rome, I always had pets, which I adored.
I never really think about what I have to do to stick to my image. I just follow what I like to do. Sometimes it's glamorous, sometimes it's not.
Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.
When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.
That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.
Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too - because they see them and are not frightened of growing older.
Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.