Actress

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.'

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

I don't really like those sorts of actresses who say, 'I don't want to make that movie,' but they make the movie. They just spend their time not liking being on a set and I just think it's absurd, because we are so lucky to do this job. When you accept to make a movie, just make the movie. And then it's more easy for relationships.

When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'

I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

I'm not a crazy old cat lady!

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.

I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.