Well, my mother, she made me apply for a school where I was supposed to learn how to type. She said, well, instead of going to demonstrate she should at least [learn], because, everything was on strike. So we had to learn something in the meantime.

Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people

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

I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actually. Rather young.

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.

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