We're here to be with her, and to help her in a spiritual way. I think our presence here is a way to sustain the possibility of freedom.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

The themes have to do with immigration, our past, and are we guilty when we're 6 years old, ... For me, the big subject is not what my husband in the film (Daniel Auteuil) has done as a child, but in not recognizing his fault, he's damaged someone's life. The theme is universal; it doesn't just belong to the French-Algerian past, but triggers something we all can share.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And that's difficult. This job is very uncertain, and it's frightening.

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.