I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."

I was really nervous about people booing, because my mother had gone for a film 20 years earlier and had a terrible time with people booing, whistling, so I knew that in Cannes people can get aggressive.

I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and because the comparisons that I - not even other people - would make.

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.