With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.

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

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.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

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

I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

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.