Quotes

When I read the script of Inglourious Basterds (2009), I was like, wow, it's been my dream to kill [Adolf Hitler] since I was like four, so I was kind of like Shosanna, already. I'm Jewish. I read the script, together with my grandfather, and he told me, "You have to make that movie, please". So, it was not just for me, it was for my family.

[on Marion Cotillard] She's my most beautiful encounter cinema-wise. We resemble each other, we both hate jealousy between girls.

[on her character Shoshanna] Ya, she's calm, strong, she's a little bit dead inside and she wants revenge.

[on A Ses Pieds] It's a female vision, so it was really soft core and chic and I just dress all my actresses in Chanel... they were the most beautiful girls.

I was dying for a cigarette and it was really forbidden and everyone was like "Gasp! Whattt!!!" And I was like "I'm French, what am I gonna do?" You can't smoke here, but you invented the cigarette!

Can I smoke? Sorry, French smoke all the time...

[on her character Shoshanna] Umm, I'm very close with her... I'm a little bit like that, sort of, French, rebel actress, like I say everything I want to say. I just want to enjoy that moment, I don't want to think about future.