Nastassja Kinski

My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

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.