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

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.

I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actually. Rather young.

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

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.