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
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.
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'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.
When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.
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.
Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.
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.
I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.
Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.
I am not a woman staying at home.
The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.
There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.
My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.