I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.

I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time, when you're known and recognised, people expect you to do what you're supposed to do, and there's almost no more criticism and that's very dangerous.

I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences.