Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth - to let it cook inside.

As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.

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.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

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