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

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

To be a great director, what does it mean exactly? It's not only about a great director, but also about being able to rely on the very special chemistry that goes between them. It not only has to be a great director, but the great director has to make his relationship to you, the actor, very special.

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.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

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

Of course you have to create the conditions of a certain belief. And maybe ignoring something that you don't want to see, at least for the time of the shooting.