As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.

I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.

I've played journalists before Elles, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.

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.