Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.