I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

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?

I don't believe in coincidence.

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.

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

You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.