He is the foremost reason I wanted to make the movie. I'd never been right for one of his movies.

And you didn't headline movies at 20. You were able to have a career that built little by little by little. It wasn't just like, OK, throw them up there, make them a superstar, pay them $10 million a movie and then watch them self-destruct and you don't care because all you need is the three years [of fame]. It was just a different set of rules.

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.