Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

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

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

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 wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!