Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It i….

I think my mother became the muse because she had everything when she was in Hollywood: she had the marriage, the success, the money, all the films s….

If you're sad and you like beer, I'm your lady, ... The Saddest Music in the World..

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women ….

True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind..

What I think has been wonderful about my life is that it has been diverse, and that I've been able to do so many different things. I was able to evol….

Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she ….

In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I don't think aging is a problem ... I'm ….

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt..

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities..

If you go to a therapist, they say, 'Are you sure? How do you feel about your wrinkles?' And I say, 'I don't know, because I don't really see them.' ….

It's hard to make a living in any of the arts. When most people think of artists, they think of the stars and the celebrities. But that's such a tiny….

I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I….

When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher ….

From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile….

In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to ….

I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be..

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge wa….

I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies..

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome..

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate..