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
The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.
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.
When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.
There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.
I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.
I am not a woman staying at home.
Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.
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 was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.
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've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.
I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.
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.
It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.