Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.
I need the seasons to live to the rythm of rain and sun. In town, It`s like you can hardly make the difference between night an day.
I hate those kisses, you know, American kisses, with the tongues out. They`re disgusting. I can`t look, it`s like porno!
"What is he, 13 or 11? Perhaps I could play his nanny." Upon hearing Leonardo DiCaprio is a big fan.
"It`s so attractive, too attractive. Your writing becomes more real than your reality. Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous." After writing her semi- autobiographical novel Telling Lies, published in 2001.
And that`s how the world, I think, imagines French women you know like very womanly and seducing men and that`s how they like to imagine them.
And that`s how you have to be smart, is are you believable in this part or aren`t you believable. And it has nothing to do with your talent.
It is personal, very honest, intimate, I would say, but sometimes the story, the anecdote, can be more or less mine - or not mine.
Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but he`s not cast in the right part then it doesn`t work.
As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That`s what`s funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.
Oh, I`m not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I`m French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions.
I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.
You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.
When you work with a director like this you don`t have a real challenge because he makes the work very easy. He knows what he wants as a director.
You know I could stop working as an actress and still be doing promotion on movies I did ten years ago. And I don`t like to do the same thing forever.
There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.
I think it`s almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.
What`s nice is that when you have to put a wig on, funny costumes, You know it`s like being a little girl playing with accessories.
Even if I think in English, it`s more a language of acting than French.
Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.
I have been making films for the last 25 years and have played characters created and inspired by others, and I often enjoyed myself doing that.
Genre aside, I`d like to make a film about people.
To be honest I don`t really know because I really didn`t care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality.
But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.
You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.
Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.
Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.
So, sometimes, when I`m not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.
And I think it`s very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.
What I am interested in is the present time.
I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I`m sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can`t help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.
It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don`t know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself.
I`m a good storyteller.
When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.
