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

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

I've done many, many French movies and many, many English movies. I think it frees something when you don't talk in your mother language, but I also think you withdraw something as well. I'm a French actress, and sometimes I speak in English-speaking roles. For me, being an actress was always being a traveler. It goes together.

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.

To be a great director, what does it mean exactly? It's not only about a great director, but also about being able to rely on the very special chemistry that goes between them. It not only has to be a great director, but the great director has to make his relationship to you, the actor, very special.

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

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.