It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

You can't work all your life.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I wish sometimes that I could be Daniel Day-Lewis and say, 'You know what? If you want me to do this, I'm going to need a year to prepare myself.' But if I do that, they'll say, 'Thank you very much,' and they'll take someone else.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth. I was scared to enter the darkness. Almost every day, I would go back home and be like, 'Oh my God, what am I doing?' I had no idea.

When you start a scene, and you don't really know where you're going to go, that's a roller-coaster.

If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that.

Campaigning and acting aren't compatible. That's why Audrey Hepburn gave up acting. That's why Angelina Jolie will give up. I'm not ready to stop yet.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.

I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity that I couldn't miss. Having the opportunity to play Shakespeare in English - that wouldn't come twice.

What I do is doing movies and sharing movies.

You don't sleep anymore, but at the same time, you have this strength that comes from this life that has just arrived. It's a big cliche how your priorities change, but every parent knows that sometimes there's a thunderstorm, and you look at his eyes, and everything is all right. It is a revolution of everything you feel.

Awards season is not something that I think about. What I enjoy a lot is knowing that people go and see the movie and they love the movie.

I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.

I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

The Dardenne brothers do a movie almost every year, and they put everything together to have a comfort.