One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

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.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

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

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

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