You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

I like working with directors much, because I want to be able to give myself completely to their vision. Otherwise I would only do what I could do, again and again. I want to be taken by someone in a different direction.

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

You should put scent where you like to be kissed.

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.

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.