“You have no specific direction at the very beginning, you don't have a script, you don't know the story. There are little hints, so there's no right or wrong in creating your character. You can do whatever you want. And it's like an adventurous journey.”
“I’m basically interested in identity, and I still find fascinating the question: How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people`s expectations for our identity?”
"Asta Nielsen" means the power to speak of pathos, to see pain, and to find the middle path between Baudelaire's flower of evil and the sick rose of which Blake sang. —M. S. Fonseca
“I like when the things are organized in a natural way, that they catch me in way. It is the fact of being honest and sincere, just and true which ‘manufactures’ my acting … At the same time, I do not approach my characters in a psychological way, I do not analyze, I do not become them.”
“The only thing a person has to remember is that film is a wide-reaching medium…not every film will make it fun for the viewer. A conscious attempt was made to make it as difficult as possible for the viewer to escape.”