I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

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

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

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.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.