My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.
I can’t really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.
We didn’t want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive. It’s very rare to be able to do that. It’s completely pure.
Isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
I think it’s nice when everyone’s happy. I’m that kind of person. But then sometimes you have people that are never happy, which also happened to me a little bit, people that always find ways to complain about everything. But if they’re never happy, that’s the way they are.
You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.
I love acting and I still want to do it, but I’ve such an instinct for directing, it’s something that comes naturally to me. It’s why I’m here on this planet.
I don’t know any woman in France who doesn’t talk to firemen and smile at them, because they’re always so sweet, and they’re wearing those tight pants. Even my dad looks at their ass when they walk down the street!
People around you that you feel you’re close to, are they really wishing you good things, you know?
I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.
I don’t want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it’s cold and raining, and there’s nothing fancy about it.
Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It’s visual, it’s directing the actors, it’s telling a story. And people don’t always mention this part of directing, but it’s also knowing how to really edit something into something that makes sense.
It’s terrifying. Women make their first film, their second film, and then it’s like a nightmare, right, to make the third or fourth? I mean, it’s almost like men can have three films in a row that don’t do that well and keep on going.
Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.
I hate that whole Tarantino thing about beating up women and killing them and chopping up. Just because you have the mind of a 12 year old.
I wasn’t born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn’t have been an artist because I’m much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can’t really escape it.
I make these little films. I’m just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It’s more sociological, and it’s funny anyway – not that serious. It’s not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.
I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.
I’ve proven that I’m not a complete failure. Every film has done well. It’s like, ‘So, okay, when do I get my deal at Warner Bros?’
When you’re an actress, you become this thing in people’s hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.