106 Quotes by Audrey Tautou

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part of moviemaking, like Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which I didn't forget.

I like movies that have strong personalities, and Michel Gondry is so creative that his films are always something special to watch.

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.

I really like to discover a new culture, a new country, a new rhythm of living. I really, really like that. I think that's the most enriching thing, for my nature, because I like the psychology of people.

Coco Chanel really wanted to have freedom of a man, and at first the only way she could find that freedom was through the clothes. They freed her movement; she got rid of the corset. This imposed her not as a decoration but as a real personality. She invented a new way of seductions through these clothes.