Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binocheis a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 40 feature films, been recipient of numerous international awards, and has appeared on stage and in movies across the world. Coming from an artistic background, she began taking acting lessons during adolescence. After performing in several stage productions, she began acting in films by auteur directors Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Doillonand André Téchiné, who made her a star in France with the leading role in his 1985...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth9 March 1964
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind of suspension. That's where you find the layer in yourself that is duplicated in everyone. And when you get it right, if you can imagine all the hearts beating in one beat, it's like that. It's beautiful.
It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn't go against a diet for me.
I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.
I would say I'm humanly engaged.
I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.
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.
I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.
I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.
I won't do something just for the sake of working.
Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.
It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.
I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.
I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.
My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.