I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.

When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo and I was having problems coping with that image.

In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

I don't act to be popular, or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time, and what I look like.

As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.

I would love to meet some directors, and why not do some other movies in America? But, I'm not obsessed with this idea. I'm feeling very free in Europe.

I'm not interested in making money, or being wealthy enough to have a villa in Beverly Hills, because in Paris I don't need that much money.

It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.

Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.

Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable 'inequality' - that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines us as a people.

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.

I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you

I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.