If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

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

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.

If anyone says 'Let's have a girls' night out', I will run in the opposite direction.