Juliette Binoche Quotes (44 Quotes)


    But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.

    Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.


    I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

    Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.


    I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

    I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.

    As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.

    Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

    I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.




    I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

    There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

    You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And that's difficult. This job is very uncertain, and it's frightening.

    The themes have to do with immigration, our past, and are we guilty when we're 6 years old, ... For me, the big subject is not what my husband in the film (Daniel Auteuil) has done as a child, but in not recognizing his fault, he's damaged someone's life. The theme is universal it doesn't just belong to the French-Algerian past, but triggers something we all can share.

    But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

    Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.

    It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

    I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

    I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

    I learned a lot last year about the current difficulties in independent film making. Money is promised one minute and gone the next. I was bitterly disappointed about Scheherazade. It was one of the best scripts I have ever read.


    I wanted to have an international career, which I have, and be free to work with whoever I wanted to work with. My instinct was to go back to France afterwards. I went to do a small film, then I went back and forth.


    What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.

    But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.

    Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

    Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

    I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.


    I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

    What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

    I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

    If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

    I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.


    People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.


    I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

    Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

    My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

    Something triggers inside her when her husband focuses on the little girl, ... She feels abandoned. Finding this man who represents unity, being Jewish, solid, family-oriented, it triggers something deep in her that reassures her. And when he changes his focus, she feels completely abandoned.


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