A biography for Juliette Binochehasn’t been written yet.
“What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.”
“Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.”
“I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.”
“I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.”
“I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.”
“I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.”
“But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.”
“I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.”
“Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.”
“Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.”
“For me, habit is just a synonym for death.”
“I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.”
“The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.”
“I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.”
“Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.”
“Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.”
“The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.”
“I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.”
“When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.”
“Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.”