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Quotes
 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!
And
I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.
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.
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.
Because
actors cannot do everything.
But
I'm not somebody who looks in the mirror backwards. That freaks me out
actually.
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.
But
there came a time when I just felt an overwhelming need to give my point
of view.
Even
if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.
Genre
aside, I'd like to make a film about people.
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.
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.
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.
I
tell one story a day to my child.
I
think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.
I
would like to direct a new film.
I'm
a good storyteller.
It
is personal, very honest, intimate, I would say, but sometimes the
story, the anecdote, can be more or less mine - or not mine.
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.
It's
great that American cinema poses such a threat. In France we have all
these pseudo-auteurs who don't have a new idea in their heads.
Mel
Gibson would not be a good James Bond.
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.
So
it's very hard to make people laughing about love or about real stories
you know.
So,
sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I
will think in English.
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.
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.
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.
Well
it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.
What
I am doing now, how to make it as good as I can and how to prepare the
future.
What
I am interested in is the present time.
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.
When
you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you
are familiar with.
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.
Words,
yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is
something very necessary, yes.
You
can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people
feel for you.
You
know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.
You
know hopefully every actor has his own personality and that's why Pierce
Brosnan does James Bond and not Mel Gibson.
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.
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.
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