Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part of moviemaking, like Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which I didn't forget.

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

Coco Chanel really wanted to have freedom of a man, and at first the only way she could find that freedom was through the clothes. They freed her movement; she got rid of the corset. This imposed her not as a decoration but as a real personality. She invented a new way of seductions through these clothes.