"And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies." - Sophie Marceau
"And that's how the world, I think, imagines French women you know like very womanly and seducing men and that's how they like to imagine them." - Sophie Marceau
"And that's how you have to be smart, is are you believable in this part or aren't you believable. And it has nothing to do with your talent." - Sophie Marceau
"As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life." - Sophie Marceau
"Because actors cannot do everything." - Sophie Marceau
"But I'm not somebody who looks in the mirror backwards. That freaks me out actually." - Sophie Marceau
"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." - Sophie Marceau
"But there came a time when I just felt an overwhelming need to give my point of view." - Sophie Marceau
"Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French." - Sophie Marceau
"Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people." - Sophie Marceau
"I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world." - Sophie Marceau
"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." - Sophie Marceau
"I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too." - Sophie Marceau
"I made two films: Alex and Emma by Rob Reiner and co-starring Kate Hudson and Luke Wilson, and Je reste by Diane Kurys, with Vincent Perez." - Sophie Marceau
"I tell one story a day to my child." - Sophie Marceau
"I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh." - Sophie Marceau
"I would like to direct a new film." - Sophie Marceau
"I'm a good storyteller." - Sophie Marceau
"It is personal, very honest, intimate, I would say, but sometimes the story, the anecdote, can be more or less mine - or not mine." - Sophie Marceau
"It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself." - Sophie Marceau
"It's great that American cinema poses such a threat. In France we have all these pseudo-auteurs who don't have a new idea in their heads." - Sophie Marceau
"Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond." - Sophie Marceau
"Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions." - Sophie Marceau
"So it's very hard to make people laughing about love or about real stories you know." - Sophie Marceau
"So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English." - Sophie Marceau
"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." - Sophie Marceau
"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." - Sophie Marceau
"To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality." - Sophie Marceau
"Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language." - Sophie Marceau
"What I am doing now, how to make it as good as I can and how to prepare the future." - Sophie Marceau
"What I am interested in is the present time." - Sophie Marceau
"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." - Sophie Marceau
"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with." - Sophie Marceau
"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." - Sophie Marceau
"Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes." - Sophie Marceau
"You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you." - Sophie Marceau
"You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far." - Sophie Marceau
"You know hopefully every actor has his own personality and that's why Pierce Brosnan does James Bond and not Mel Gibson." - Sophie Marceau
"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." - Sophie Marceau
