Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.

We all have loads of information. What an actor does is bring it to the surface. I jump without a net because that's how I am. The information comes out because I am brave enough to allow it. I'm not brave as a human being in everyday life. I'm brave when I'm acting.

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.