I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

I am bored to talk of my films. I cannot even bear to see most of them.

One thing I can say is either to look at films very carefully, watch a lot of films, or don't see any films at all. Just imagine!

I'm frightened of my own movies.

I don't like looking at myself in the mirror. I'm not photographing myself. I've never liked to be photographed. I don't like watching my movies.

I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

To this day, I can't watch my own sex scenes.

I find it quite difficult to watch the film once it is done, because in your head or imagination it is totally different. In the beginning it is quite hard, and I don't mean hard as in a negative or a positive. It is difficult to see the film being edited and see the real images for the first time coming out of your head and onto the screen. Sometimes you are surprised that he left something in and he took something out. The director is the creator; he's the captain of the ship when it comes to the creative journey of the film, along of course with the producer. So when you start out acting you have to find a way to understand and to deal with that. But as I say I don't mean it as a negative or a positive.

When was the last time you looked at anything, solely, and concentratedly, and for its own sake? Ordinary life passes in a near blur. If we go to the theatre or the cinema, the images before us change constantly, and there is the distraction of language. Our loved ones are so well known to us that there is no need to look at them, and one of the gentle jokes of married life is that we do not.

Oh, it was just a movie that should have never been made. I'm horrible in it. I look at myself in it and think, "Oh, you stiff. Go die!" I can't even look at it. The only thing I can say about it was that it brought me to Texas.

From things about to disappear I turn away in time. To watch them out of sight, no, I can't do it.

It's like I can never watch myself on TV unless I have to do some editing before a show comes out. It's like hearing your voice back on a tape recorder and I'm sure you know how horrible that is. I always look for the worst things in myself - criticising my hair and stuff. I'm very self-conscious about it all.

I don't like film. Film is too clankingly real, too permanent, too industrial for me. … The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusions. It makes them impossible. It's a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

Well, I’m not very comfortable with looking at myself in the mirror before I do a scene, anyway. It really throws me.