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

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

If anyone says 'Let's have a girls' night out', I will run in the opposite direction.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

My body is a baby machine.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

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