I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.
Marion Cotillard
It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.
My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.
When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.
I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.
When someone would come up to me in the street, I would either run away or burst into tears. I didn't know what to do. I don't think you're ever prepared for this.
I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.
I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.
I'd love to work with Gaultier, and I'm obsessed with Vivienne Westwood.
I need to be on the same page as the director.
I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.
My team puts forward a selection of dresses, and I choose the one I feel most natural in.
Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.
I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.
I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.
I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.
The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.
Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.
I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.
I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn't. I wouldn't be able to describe my style or even tell if I have one or not.
I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.
I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.
As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.
In a way, I don't create anything; I just open myself to the character, and the character takes over. Of course, I'm aware of it, and I'm driving it, but I don't try to control it. If I try to control it, it goes wrong.
You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.
Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.
I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.
The Dardenne brothers do a movie almost every year, and they put everything together to have a comfort.
I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.
I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.
As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.
If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.
I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.
Awards season is not something that I think about. What I enjoy a lot is knowing that people go and see the movie and they love the movie.
You don't sleep anymore, but at the same time, you have this strength that comes from this life that has just arrived. It's a big cliche how your priorities change, but every parent knows that sometimes there's a thunderstorm, and you look at his eyes, and everything is all right. It is a revolution of everything you feel.
What I do is doing movies and sharing movies.
I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity that I couldn't miss. Having the opportunity to play Shakespeare in English - that wouldn't come twice.
The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.
I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.
What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.
I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.
Campaigning and acting aren't compatible. That's why Audrey Hepburn gave up acting. That's why Angelina Jolie will give up. I'm not ready to stop yet.
If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that.
When you start a scene, and you don't really know where you're going to go, that's a roller-coaster.
I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth. I was scared to enter the darkness. Almost every day, I would go back home and be like, 'Oh my God, what am I doing?' I had no idea.
I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.
I wish sometimes that I could be Daniel Day-Lewis and say, 'You know what? If you want me to do this, I'm going to need a year to prepare myself.' But if I do that, they'll say, 'Thank you very much,' and they'll take someone else.
I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.
You can't work all your life.
