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.

To be "here and now," in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.

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.

When I hear myself, I don't know how I sound.

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

Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You have to keep a distance - and it's exactly the same with acting.

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.