An interview to the magazine Psychologie:
Being an actress is forget yourself, to radiate charm. To give something that was brought
you: maybe the grace, the strength and the last element, the one that brings a fragrance
to your mind: the absence. Because making movies is like a ship in the storm: one at the
rudder, the others attentive; if just one drowns, all drown. Movies are open doors,
and at every door I change character and life. Every door is a question. The answer is
to live it up. And I live for the present, always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the
past, but it's a page to turn.
About Damage and Irons:
There were misunderstandings with Irons, I didn't forgive him. Malle seemed to be intrested
other things but the film. I were in pieces, I left the set, came back... often I foud
myself screaming dirty words in the nobody's land, behind the studios. Maybe it was me,
maybe I was hard... I've always been. But Malle was trying to chang my image! He considered
it too direct and wanted something of more sophisticated. He deeply hurt me: I even don't
make up, sometimes. It was living with aliens with the duty of pretending love.
It's terrible when you have to pretend desire to a man you hate.
About Blue and Kieslowski:
I had to hurt myself by scratching a wall for the despair after losing my dears in the
crash at the beginning of the story. A prothesis was required. I said to Kieslowski:
"I can do it with bare hands" and he looks at me and bursts out: "Not at all. You don't
make a movie to hurt yourself". He surprised me: it was the first time that somebody were
afraid for me on the set. I thought he was coming from a different world. Then I risked
a bronchitis cause the air currents in the pose theatre. But working with that man
has been an authentic pleasure.