People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

I am not a woman staying at home.

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.