The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.

The first important movie that I did, I shaved my head for the movie. When the hair grew back, I had white hair for the first time in my life.

As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.