Juliette Binoche

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

I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.

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

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

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

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.

As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.

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.

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

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.