I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

I used to hate being recognised.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

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 love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.

When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.