Juliette Binoche

“But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.”

“Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth - to let it cook inside.”

“I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.”

“When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.”

“I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.”

“As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.”

“I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.”

“When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.”

“Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.”

“As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.”

“I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.”

“My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.”

“It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn't go against a diet for me.”

“Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.”

“I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.”

“You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.”

“I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.”

“I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.”

“If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't act anymore, it wouldn't bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life.”

“I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.”