I don't want to become more famous than what I am. I'm not interested in being in movies that are going to be shown all around the world and get a massive audience, so I'm interested in doing foreign movies as long as it stays an exceptional case and is exotic, but I don't want to go there [Hollywood].
I don't want to think my life as a career.
In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.
What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.
I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be.
You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.
I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.
Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script.
There are moments when it's unbelievable how people who work on the hair or on the little bit of skin here, they have no other care or interest since this part of their job is the only thing that needs to look good. So you have to push everybody to the side so that you can have a connection with your actor and give some air to your actor.
I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.
I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.
I'm very interested in people, in general.
I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.
I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.
When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.
It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!
I think that if you do an American movie it's important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.
I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.
A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part of moviemaking, like Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which I didn't forget.
I like movies that have strong personalities, and Michel Gondry is so creative that his films are always something special to watch.
When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.
I can be maternal with my friends.
I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.
People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.
