Audrey Tautou

I started off in this dreadful, vulgar film called 'The Libertine.' I was just learning. I needed the money.

I like when an image could be just one of several others which would create a story. That you can imagine who are those people or what would happen before, what's going to be next; I like when there's a past and a future that we can imagine when we see photos.

I am not super-attached to my career.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Amelie' was a very precise, a very composed performance - ultra-defined, down to the tips of her fingernails, the ends of her hair.

Some films are pure entertainment of course, but what interests me and what I want to do are projects that really make you think, that move you, that will bring you something that will stay with you for a while. I think films are essential to the intellectual awakening of people.

I know what I'm worth as an actress: not the best in the world, but not bad either.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

I have several plan Bs: I want to become a sailor; I like to draw; I would love to learn many things, but I don't have time.

What was weird for me after 'Amelie' was how people look at you. It moves all your relationships and sometimes even your intimate ones, and you don't understand why suddenly everything around you changes, because you are exactly the same person.

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.