My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.

But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.

Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.