When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

People always like things that seem exotic.

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.