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
I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.
When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.
As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.
Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.
I have been proposed to four times. Twice at the beginning of a relationship and twice at the end of a relationship. I've never said no. I just didn't give an answer!
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.