It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.