I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

For me, real, truthful moments come from a place that I don't know. If somebody was telling me, "You're going to lift your face like this, you're going to do this..." No! I don't want to know. Just let me live it.

As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.

A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn't matter. It's about connecting sensibility and energy together, and having a vision that goes together and anchors the film as you go along.

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

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

I don't believe in coincidence.