When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it

I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.

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.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.