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.

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

Successful films are very dangerous things.

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

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.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

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.