In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how it happens with certain directors and certain scenes. That's the way it works. It's not something, in general, that you can decide.

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

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

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

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

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