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I can be maternal with my friends.
What we wear is the shell of who we are.
I don't want to think my life as a career.
I'm very interested in people, in general.
I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.
I keep my wishes and dreams secret, like a child.
I believe in God, but I am not sure to trust Him so much.
I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.
I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.
I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.
I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.
I feel very French and I need my life here; I need all my friends and family.
What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.
I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.
I think for everybody celebrity, fame, is a dream. People see it as a blessing.
To have a personal life is the minimum freedom you have to give to a human being.
Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.
Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script.
It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.
I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.
I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.
I'm not imagining me being the James Bond girl, because anyway I don't have the good maturation.
It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.
I would like to work with people whose films I really like: Walter Salles, Woody Allen, Julio Medem.
When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.
It was very difficult to go from relative anonymity to such huge success in such a short space of time.
I am always surprised to be chosen by a director for a role because I never understand why they like me.
I started off in this dreadful, vulgar film called 'The Libertine.' I was just learning. I needed the money.
I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.
I've never sent a Tweet. I think I have an account but I don't know who runs it. I've never done one in my life.
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 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.
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.
People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.
Amelie' was a very precise, a very composed performance - ultra-defined, down to the tips of her fingernails, the ends of her hair.
I like movies that have strong personalities, and Michel Gondry is so creative that his films are always something special to watch.
I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.
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.
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.
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.
Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.
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.
Because I don't do five films a year, people maybe think that acting is not essential to my life. But if I worked any more than I do, I'd have no personal life.
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.
You are supposed to have a dream of walking the red carpet. But I'm really not like that. Because fame is... I don't think it is something interesting or precious.
I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.
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 like actors who are themselves. I know in America you like actors who change their nose or wear a lot of wigs, and they like to take pretty girls and make them super ugly.
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.