I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.
Marion CotillardI've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.
Marion CotillardYou cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.
Marion CotillardIt's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.
Marion CotillardI'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.
Marion CotillardI'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.
Marion Cotillard