My Ambition Is To Be Happy.

[winning An Oscar] Was A Beautiful Thing That Happened. It Is In My House, And Every Time I Look At, I See All The People Who Are A Part Of It, All The People Who Gave Me Opportunities To Work, Gave Me Opportunities To Make A Living At This Thing [acting] That Was A Dream For Me, Growing Up. And I Got To Do It, And Then Again And Again And Again, And Make A Living Out Of Being An Actress.

In Spain, Actresses Work Until They Are Old. That's My Plan.

It's Very Much Like A Torture Sometimes, The Process Of Trying To Get Rid Of An Accent.

Pedro's Almodovar Different - Very Unique, Very Particular And Difficult To Compare To Anyone Else. But I've Been Lucky With Many Of The People That I've Worked With. I Think I've Been Very Lucky With Great Opportunities - Directors Like Stephen Frears, Cameron Crowe And Fernando Trueba, As Well As Bigas Luna, Who Gave Me My First Opportunity. There Are A Lot Of People I Would Love To Work With Again. But, Of Course, I Have A Special Relationship With Pedro And I Don't Think It's Good To Hide That.

I Would Always Cast Meryl Streep For Everything. I Would Do With Something Inspired By The Work Of Guy Bourdin, My Favorite Photographer.