Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening ….

But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing..

We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me..

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust..

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides ….

I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actual….

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films a….

What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how it happens with cer….

If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as much as you show. When I see a scene….

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything..

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more am….

Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a gre….

The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the proces….

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity..

One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator..

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you….

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface..

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looke….

One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and i….

To be "here and now," in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that..

I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my na….