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.

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.

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 hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.

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.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

All those minds that are interested in finding out the truth communicate with each other across the distances of space and time. I, too, was taking part in the effort which humanity makes to know.

The devil blade is the spear of the unsuccessful

Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose ... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.