I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

You can't escape from what you are.

When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that's a terrible feeling.

You usually never know what you're going to do when you're making a movie.

I didn't want to be part of that tradition of French cinema that wasn't really watched by the people of my age. I didn't really care to be in the last André Téchiné or Claude Chabrol movie, even though some of them are really interesting. For me, it was much more important to work with Mathieu Kassovitz or Gaspar Noé. It was for me a question of identity.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.