It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.

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.

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

I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

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

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