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

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 really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

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

I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.

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