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.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

Films are just consumables.

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.