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
For me, acting goes to a special place; it's almost mystical. You have to let go of what you think is good; it's a jump into trust, and trying to reach without wanting too much.
In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.
People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.
I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.
I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.
I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.
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.
What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.
I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.
I won't do something just for the sake of working.
Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand?
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.
When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.