At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.

I see most of my movies at festivals.

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous.

Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.