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.

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

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

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

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.