I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.
Sophie Marceau
I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.
What I am interested in is the present time.
Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.
You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.
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.
Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.
I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.
And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.
I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.
Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.
I'm a good storyteller.
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.
When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.
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.
Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.
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.
Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.
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.
You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.
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.
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.
Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.
So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.
Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.
All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.
