- [Upon being asked about the Leonard Cohen video, for First We Take Manhattan, in which she played "The Woman on the Train"] There was the blessing of making it on sumptuous black and white film, along with the lighting, which was sublime ... and all of these elements together helped to create that luminous enchantment ... that rapturous illumination one treasures in movies of the Golden Age ...
- Upon being asked about her scenes in the Leonard Cohen video for First We Take Manhattan] The first began with a man taking his suitcase in hand, and then pausing to look at me and touch me softly. I was asked to do a take with a completely blank expression on my face. This reminded me of a story I had heard about a director asking Greta Garbo, for the final scene of their movie, to make her face 'a blank sheet of paper ...' so the audience could write their own ending ...
- [on working with Leonard Cohen After we finished, I exited the train and saw the exquisite Leonard Cohen standing on the platform, waiting for me. How sweet life can be. How tender ... He thanked me for being in his music video, and we left the station to have dinner with some of the others at a heavenly little place by the sea. Looking back, I realize, that may have been at midnight or even one o'clock in the morning! But it was France ... And it was beautiful ... And it was magical ...
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