When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.

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.

A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn't matter. It's about connecting sensibility and energy together, and having a vision that goes together and anchors the film as you go along.

It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn't go against a diet for me.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.

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.