Audrey Tautou Quotations

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

I can be maternal with my friends.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part of moviemaking, like Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which I didn't forget.