I love making movies. I love writing. I love acting. I love it, and I feel really blessed to be able to actually make a living with something I love doing.

Usually I'm able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less.

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.

I've never had help from anyone, ever. I've never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I'm a French woman in Hollywood. Who could identify with me as a successful director in Hollywood? Nobody. And the few people who could have been mentors, instead they just stole my ideas.

I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting a job and all that stuff, because I don't really need to get a job because I have a job as a writer/director. That's how I make my living mostly now. So I don't need to make a living as an actress.

It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.