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.

It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating.

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is a part of a tool to tell the story. So if you feel something, it's wrong. It means you're not inside of the character.

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.

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.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.