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.

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.

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

The big problem in the world is when people are forced to be in a totally foreign context.

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

I never had any barriers coming from my family. Just encouragement.