I don't think I'm that intellectual.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

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.

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

But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.

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.

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