I'm gonna do four or five of these movies, and it's going to become my career. I'll have to keep expanding the bat suit, because I get fatter every year. I'll be bankrupt. I'll be out opening shopping malls, going from appearance to appearance in a cheesy van. [On playing Batman]

has been in the movies for 45 years-although one would never guess, looking at her. [Throughout her career,] she has epitomized femininity and intellectuality in the Italian cinema.

And you didn't headline movies at 20. You were able to have a career that built little by little by little. It wasn't just like, OK, throw them up there, make them a superstar, pay them $10 million a movie and then watch them self-destruct and you don't care because all you need is the three years [of fame]. It was just a different set of rules.

he says. ''I've been able to star in three movies in my career, and I still haven't done that.

I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.

Leaving a lot of movie sets, I've gone home and said, 'How come my hands are clean?' I should finish something and go home with dirt in my fingernails, because then you really feel that you've done something.