I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me.

She had such a strong affection for animals that Marie Trintignant had first dreamt of becoming a veterinarian but the acting heritage proved too strong. Trintignant was in Vilnius Lithuania at the time making a movie about the French novelist Colette. Her parents divorced in 1976.