"But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people."

Society, People, Connection

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"But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people."

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Tragedy

"I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything."

Talent

"But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach."

Music

"My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything."

Father

"But theatre is always a difficult experience."

Experience

"I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way."

Beginning

"When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it."

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