When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.

I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

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

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.