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.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.

It rarely happens that I get to work again with the same director. I had such a wonderful time on Antichrist with Lars von Trier, that I was going to do whatever he proposed me to do. When he sent me the script of Christmas, I just loved it. I think I love anything he writes.