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You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

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Kristin Scott Thomas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 24
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I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.
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When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.
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I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
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I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.
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If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.
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