My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.