There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

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.

In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.

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

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.

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