Born on December 29th

"In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake."

"I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent."

"After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin."

"I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday."

"I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me."

"The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic."

"Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology."

"Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted."

"If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused."

"All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination."

"Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end."

"The welfare of Catalonia is only possible outside of Spain."

"There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent."

"The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie."

"To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough."

"We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments."

"He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence."

"I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum."

"To me, the European Union says there is a charter that protects you; you have fundamental rights, and they are staying silent when they are violating my fundamental rights."

"How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me - I'm a European citizen."

"The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that."

"I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them."

"No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it."

"I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament."

"What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear."

"They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?"

"Whoever doesn't want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist."

"Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty."

"There's no alternative to Catalan independence."

"There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that."