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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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"Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things."

"The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre."

"It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it."

"Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture."

"Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else."

"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."

"For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!"

"Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film."
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