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

Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You have to keep a distance - and it's exactly the same with acting.

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

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

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

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