I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

I've worked with Andre Techine lately and with a young unknown director on a short film. I choose my roles carefully.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

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.

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.

Men are good but women are magic.