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

I don't think I'm a perfect mother. I think I'm trying my best. I think it's complicated, it's difficult. I think I'm learning from my kids so much to be their mother. I don't think you're born a mother, I think you become a mother.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

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

I'm very patient and always willing to try things but I have some resistance as well because I have my own vision. I have resistance sometimes because I see a director who's freaking out and wants to have control and they sometimes anticipate about what I'm going to be doing or not.

I'm not a dancer, so I have to find a movement that belongs to me. I dance within my limits and with my imagination.