I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.

The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.