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

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand?

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.