But theatre is always a difficult experience.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

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

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

When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.

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.