Laetitia Casta Quotes

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

I've always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century, and I'm really fascinated by that whole time period.

Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are in a different time and place.

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had the feeling we were somewhere completely different, in another time.

In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.

While I appreciate horror movies, I'd love the opportunity to do something transformative, especially because people see me as contemporary. There's a lot to explore in my career that could take me back to another time. A period piece would be an incredible game of dress-up, too.

Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time travelling, being inside a history book, in the actual locations.

We're really creating a whole different kind of travel experience. One that really celebrates the different places, different cultures, the different cities and immerses you in that culture.

I like the idea of stepping back into another time period.

I was really impressed with and excited about being immersed in this world and this time period with 'Fences,' being able to walk the neighborhood, and it looks exactly like the 1950s.

I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.

It's always a treat to have something that lets me explore a different period. I do try to be a stickler, as much as I can, but luckily the writers are, as well.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

We're all just memories of our future selves.

We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.