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

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

I never raise my voice!

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

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.

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.