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.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.

Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.