There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.

When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.

I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.