Top 80 Quotes by Juliette Binoche

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

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.

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth - to let it cook inside.

I won't do something just for the sake of working.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.