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.

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 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.

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

I never had any barriers coming from my family. Just encouragement.

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.