For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.

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

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

I'm curious and you know, I really think cinema is strong medium that allows you to go to so many different mental countries, not just geographical countries. As far as it allows me to express something of my own truth, it's fine for me. I can go to the moon.

But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.

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.