If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as much as you show. When I see a scene in which feelings get loudly exteriorized, I say to myself, 'Well, at least this never happens to me.' I very rarely go through this type of expression. Most of the time things are hidden or at least much more subdued.

By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.

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.

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.