For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, "oh!", and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.

I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

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 wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.