Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.
But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.
What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.
I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.
Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.
I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.
Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.
I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.
There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.
I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.
