It is personal, very honest, intimate, I would say, but sometimes the story, the anecdote, can be more or less mine - or not mine.
When you work with a director like this you don't have a real challenge because he makes the work very easy. He knows what he wants as a director.
Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but he's not cast in the right part then it doesn't work.
You know I could stop working as an actress and still be doing promotion on movies I did ten years ago. And I don't like to do the same thing forever.
There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.
Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.
You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.
Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.
You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.
But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.
I have been making films for the last 25 years and have played characters created and inspired by others, and I often enjoyed myself doing that.
What's nice is that when you have to put a wig on, funny costumes, You know it's like being a little girl playing with accessories.