Kristin Scott Thomas

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.