Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

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

When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

My experience has nothing to do with creation, I don't think, even though maturity is helpful. In a creation process, there's an intuition that takes you and if it's nourished with awareness and experience, it's great.

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.