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

Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.

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.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

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

What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how it happens with certain directors and certain scenes. That's the way it works. It's not something, in general, that you can decide.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.