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

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

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.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

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.