Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes. I like to have this impression that we are all working together, where you can see all the technicians and everybody is really doing the same thing at the same time. With close-ups, of course you have the crew there, but most of them are just around and it doesn't involve that many people.

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.