Catherine Deneuve Thinking Quotations

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.

I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time, when you're known and recognised, people expect you to do what you're supposed to do, and there's almost no more criticism and that's very dangerous.

I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences.

I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.

I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.

Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.