My children are lovely. They're perfect.

I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

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

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

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

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.