As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

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

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

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

What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.