My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.

Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.

I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.

My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.