There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere. Charlotte Gainsbourg More Quotes by Charlotte Gainsbourg More Quotes From Charlotte Gainsbourg I don't feel I have to share everything. Charlotte Gainsbourg share feels With a film you go with the script that's already written. And I've never thought of a project, a film that would come from my own desire. I don't think I can do it. I need someone else's desire to be able to do something. With a record, it is completely different, it's a collaboration with another artist, but I'm willing to go into intimate places with no masks on. Charlotte Gainsbourg artist desire thinking I can't do things by myself. I need a motivation, and the motivation is always the director's. I find my freedom inside other people's barriers. It's easier for me to find myself inside someone else's tracks. Charlotte Gainsbourg barriers track motivation I haven't found a comfortable place onstage. I'm sure it doesn't have to be comfortable, but I'm very nervous, so I don't enjoy myself. Charlotte Gainsbourg nervous enjoy found I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy. Charlotte Gainsbourg singers able want I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises. Charlotte Gainsbourg exercise two school I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road." Charlotte Gainsbourg touring land world I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward, you know. It's so easy to say no to stuff, and then, after a while, it's very hard to go back in. Charlotte Gainsbourg choices waiting father I don’t have tons of scripts where I don’t know what to choose and I’m trying to calculate. It’s either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it’s always been very obvious. Charlotte Gainsbourg meeting-someone want trying I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. Charlotte Gainsbourg lucky father needs I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors. Charlotte Gainsbourg able focus actors I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better." Charlotte Gainsbourg get-better mean thinking I don't like being on my own. I'm happy meeting people and collaborating. Charlotte Gainsbourg meetings my-own people I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads. Charlotte Gainsbourg simple opposites ideas It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful. Charlotte Gainsbourg able different land It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and because the comparisons that I - not even other people - would make. Charlotte Gainsbourg writing father people I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you. Charlotte Gainsbourg like-you people I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky. Charlotte Gainsbourg lucky careers done Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on. Charlotte Gainsbourg ridiculous letting-go thinking I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments. Charlotte Gainsbourg afterlife judgment protect
