When you are on set, you are not your best judge because it is hard to step back when you are into the character.
— Marion Cotillard
I never dreamt to be a princess in my life; I really dreamt to be an actress, but I dreamt of princesses on screen.
I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.
It's always a weird feeling being on the red carpet, but the more I go, the more I try to connect myself to the here and now. And breathe. That's the way I make the experience a good one. If I think too much - if my head is somewhere else because I'm stressed out - it shows.
I'd love to work with Gaultier, and I'm obsessed with Vivienne Westwood.
Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.
I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.
Campaigning and acting aren't compatible. That's why Audrey Hepburn gave up acting. That's why Angelina Jolie will give up. I'm not ready to stop yet.
When someone would come up to me in the street, I would either run away or burst into tears. I didn't know what to do. I don't think you're ever prepared for this.
I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity that I couldn't miss. Having the opportunity to play Shakespeare in English - that wouldn't come twice.
The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.
I never take anything personally when it doesn't concern me.
I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.
I never thought I'd have the opportunity to visit another culture.
I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.
My first kiss was in the geography room, where you put all the maps. I actually don't know how to say it in English.
I cry watching 'Camille' with Greta Garbo. I have to say that - while it might sound weird - it will be weird, but there is one movie I always laugh in, and at the end of the movie, I always cry, and I saw it, like, 10 times. It's 'Step Brothers.'
The biggest challenge to me is always technique.
Usually when I work, I'm totally dedicated to the role, and when I leave the set, I bring some of my character home with me, but I can't bring anyone home with me now because my son would freak out.
Just doing movies after movies after movies, you're never alone.
If I just wear something because I feel like myself and I'm comfortable, that's okay - and that goes even for more edgy things. But if I try too much, or if I even try, it doesn't work. It doesn't feel natural, and I feel very uncomfortable.
My team puts forward a selection of dresses, and I choose the one I feel most natural in.
I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.
When you don't have time, especially for a director, you cannot do exactly what you want to do. You have to cut your dream to fit in the movie you're doing.
You don't sleep anymore, but at the same time, you have this strength that comes from this life that has just arrived. It's a big cliche how your priorities change, but every parent knows that sometimes there's a thunderstorm, and you look at his eyes, and everything is all right. It is a revolution of everything you feel.
In a way, I don't create anything; I just open myself to the character, and the character takes over. Of course, I'm aware of it, and I'm driving it, but I don't try to control it. If I try to control it, it goes wrong.
Before I was a mum, I could live in another dimension, create another world, and it wouldn't bother me if I was not totally available or totally myself. Today I cannot do that anymore.
Awards season is not something that I think about. What I enjoy a lot is knowing that people go and see the movie and they love the movie.
I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.
All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.
When I was a kid, my dream was to be an actress and to be able to jump from one world to another, to disappear into roles, that people wouldn't recognize me from one movie to another. So I feel very lucky that I have the opportunity to live that dream.
I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.
There are so many actresses that I love. I think Jennifer Lawrence is a prodigy. I think Elle Fanning is absolutely amazing.
I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.
I was a big fan of Greta Garbo and that era of movies, so I dreamt watching those movies.
You fall in love with someone, you don't know this person yet, and you get to know this person. That's what happens when I fall in love with a character, and I want to be this person.
I never look at any pictures of myself on the red carpet. I can't do that.
I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn't. I wouldn't be able to describe my style or even tell if I have one or not.
We need to fight for women's rights, but I don't want to separate women from men. We're separated already because we're not made the same, and it's the difference that creates this energy in creation and love.
Michael Fassbender is just a creative force: he finds authenticity in singularity with what he brings, and it's always authentic. He doesn't try to be creative and different for the sake of it.
The Dardenne brothers do a movie almost every year, and they put everything together to have a comfort.
When you start a scene, and you don't really know where you're going to go, that's a roller-coaster.
I wish sometimes that I could be Daniel Day-Lewis and say, 'You know what? If you want me to do this, I'm going to need a year to prepare myself.' But if I do that, they'll say, 'Thank you very much,' and they'll take someone else.
I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.
What I do is doing movies and sharing movies.
When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.
'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.
I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.
I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth. I was scared to enter the darkness. Almost every day, I would go back home and be like, 'Oh my God, what am I doing?' I had no idea.
Toni Collette is one of my favorite. I have a passion for actresses. The list is going to be very, very long.
