On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
I’m lucky; people write scripts for me.
This book was company for me – I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
I have no physical courage, I’ve asked for a double.
I love to do very long and complicated scenes.
I love vampire stories. That’s why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
I was never a dangerous woman. I’m not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.
I don’t live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.
I did important films when I was very young.
Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
Most of the time I’ve worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.
I like working with directors much, because I want to be able to give myself completely to their vision. Otherwise I would only do what I could do, again and again. I want to be taken by someone in a different direction.
I know who I am, how I was. I don’t want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.
When you’re young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it’s become less of problem.
You’re better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.
What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I’m always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.
Sometimes, just to give the impression that you have the strength and the vitality demands a lot. You can’t always give that impression when you have heels and a wig on and it’s 40 degrees outside.
I am frivolous. But sometimes, that’s the problem of my Christian education, when I know I’ve been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.
I think one of the few times I’ve been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it’s really difficult to become someone that really existed.
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.