It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

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