I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.