I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

I'm not imagining me being the James Bond girl, because anyway I don't have the good maturation.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.