Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.
I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!
I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.
I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.
I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.
A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.
What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.
They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.