I'm very patient and always willing to try things but I have some resistance as well because I have my own vision. I have resistance sometimes because I see a director who's freaking out and wants to have control and they sometimes anticipate about what I'm going to be doing or not.

Juliette Binoche

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What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

Juliette Binoche

crazy adventure travel

The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!

Juliette Binoche

keep-smiling being-strong smile

When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.

Juliette Binoche

heart looks thinking

I believe such illumination comes if you're open to the surprises the universe throws at you. You must be able to let go of the past, whatever success you may have seen, whatever your comfort, whatever your habits. To me, that's the key to loving life: Enabling yourself to step bravely into the unknown. Only there will you find yourself again.

Juliette Binoche

letting-go believe past

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

Juliette Binoche

being-true moments ambition

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

Juliette Binoche

attraction sometimes ideas

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

Juliette Binoche

risk pages past

A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn't matter. It's about connecting sensibility and energy together, and having a vision that goes together and anchors the film as you go along.

Juliette Binoche

anchors vision years

I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.

Juliette Binoche

embrace feelings thinking

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

Juliette Binoche

live-your-life reading book

I think the world would be much better if you always started the morning by calling the person you dreamt of during the night.

Juliette Binoche

morning night thinking

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

Juliette Binoche

important giving believe

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.

Juliette Binoche

real mother needs

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.

Juliette Binoche

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

Juliette Binoche

actors path doe

I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

Juliette Binoche

space knowing needs

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Juliette Binoche

synonym habit death

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

Juliette Binoche

theatre roots people

But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.

Juliette Binoche

judging mean believe

As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.

Juliette Binoche

actresses beats