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It requires a lot of yourself. All the layers have to be involved in acting:
the sensations, the heart, the guts, the thoughts, the imagination.
I think it's the incarnation of thoughts, of ideas, feelings. It's the most interesting work on earth.
I'm not looking for specific character but when I read something and it somehow does
its chemistry by itself in me, then I know whether I have or do it or not.
It's not a mind decision, it's actually more gut decision because the body doesn't lie.
Authority doesn't mean anything. I love people being intense in their work, when they are
convinced by what they like and don't like, when they gad experience, you know, they have
a true vision, then it means intensity. I don't see it as authority.
Authority is boring for me. But when you're so convinced, it gives an authority, and that authority I'm ready
to embrace and accept. But within that, it's like tango. It's wonderful to know where you're
going but still you have to have freedom inside you have to have a circle where it's possible
to create. And as an actor you have to have your total sort of freedom so you can give
the best of what's inside you. It's not a mental decision. The mind is involved but
it's the chemistry, an alchemy between the body, the mind and heart. It has to be all
the three together.
Well, it's always wonderful to have success because it's such a difficult work that you're
happy that it works. Nevertheless, if success changes the choices you're making, then it
becomes a little problem for me and that's where you have to be smart.
Oh, that's a very old question for me! If I was 25, you know I would try to answer it
but I've already done 26 years of career where I chose to have specific films. I've done
some Hollywood films very rarely but I still tried and it was not my choice and, not my
realm, not my fantasy, not my need. It was finding the director I could get in touch
with inside, that would give something special to the world and special also to me.
That was really the driven of my choices. With moments of fear when I had the Oscar, when
I got back home, I chose very friendship films because I was frightened somehow. Now since
few years I don't think about the consequences of what I am doing. Because otherwise you
tied up like this and I don't want to be frightened, I just want to go with great artists.
In every way! That's what I'm looking for -- to have a change in me through film, through
an encounter, through an experience. Because otherwise why living it.