The Da Vinci Code' was a great experience and I was lucky to be chosen, but I don't like the pressure that goes with all these big things. I don't want to be any more famous at all.

I started off in this dreadful, vulgar film called 'The Libertine.' I was just learning. I needed the money.

It was very difficult to go from relative anonymity to such huge success in such a short space of time.

I know what I'm worth as an actress: not the best in the world, but not bad either.

In certain environments young adults can't choose their lives because of family pressure. In the bourgeoisie there is still a sense you will marry within that milieu.

Amelie' was a very precise, a very composed performance - ultra-defined, down to the tips of her fingernails, the ends of her hair.

To have a personal life is the minimum freedom you have to give to a human being.

When you look at the comedies that are out there, 99 per cent of the time, men are the heroes. It's often thought that a woman can't be funny, that women are supposed to be sexy, not funny.

I like when an image could be just one of several others which would create a story. That you can imagine who are those people or what would happen before, what's going to be next; I like when there's a past and a future that we can imagine when we see photos.

I would like to work with people whose films I really like: Walter Salles, Woody Allen, Julio Medem.