Jeanne Moreau

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.