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

I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.

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

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.