I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences.

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.