Melanie Laurent

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.