I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.
In certain environments young adults can't choose their lives because of family pressure. In the bourgeoisie there is still a sense you will marry within that milieu.
I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.
Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.
I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.
After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.
Amelie' was a very precise, a very composed performance - ultra-defined, down to the tips of her fingernails, the ends of her hair.
It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.
The Da Vinci Code' was a great experience and I was lucky to be chosen, but I don't like the pressure that goes with all these big things. I don't want to be any more famous at all.
People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.
I think that when you have that really strong desire to work with someone it's because, instinctively, you feel you have a certain kinship.
When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because nobody could give me a good answer, I opted for acting.
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 might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.
I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.
I have several plan Bs: I want to become a sailor; I like to draw; I would love to learn many things, but I don't have time.
It was very difficult to go from relative anonymity to such huge success in such a short space of time.
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.
