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.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

You have to be very cautious about what you are doing for charity and things like that. I think you have to start with your life. I think that's what life is expecting you to do. In your family, in your surroundings, in your work life, in the people you're with, your relationships; how you behave and doing what you need to accomplish. That for me is being a hero every day of your life.

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

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.

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.

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