I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

Films are just consumables.