In acting process, it’s very difficult to explain. It’s something very intimate, very private.
We all need illusions. That’s why we love movies.
I’m a lucky person because I’ve been loved a lot. I have a great family.
People are very passionate in Italy. If you like something, you like something. If you hate something, you hate something. When you hate something, you are screaming.
I have no idea how I’m perceived in America because I don’t live the reality of America.
Time destroys everything.
Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don’t get used to someone or take them for granted.
When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that’s going on from the images because the images are so strong.
I come from a Catholic religion, but I’m not Catholic.
When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.
I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.
I’m not a movie star. I’m just an actress.
Envy is human nature.
My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me.
After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects.
Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.
When I make an American movie it’s going to come out all over the world-it doesn’t happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
As a woman I am so curious about prostitutes because of the idea that they know men better than you. Also, it’s such a strange way to live. But at the same time there are prostitutes who just want to be prostitutes, and this is this woman, nobody pushed her to do it. She’s a prostitute because she wants to be a prostitute. It’s her philosophy of life.