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.

In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about American movies, they go and see the thrillers, and Westerns, and science fiction, huge entertaining movies.

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.

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

I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a talking movie [The Artist], I'm sure she would be exactly the same for me.