Denis Lavant

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

I have 30 years of experience working with Leos Carax, so all the films of Leos Carax are unusual or unique. I look at them as a journey: a journey which is very personal to Leos.

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.