I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.

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

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.

The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.

A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.

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