After Amelie was such a huge success that, strangely, I didn't want to do a movie which could be a huge success. I wanted to go and to do something smaller and more discreet.
After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.
I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.
I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.
I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen.
In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.
People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.
When I wanted to do this job it was for making movies not for the glitter. Of course with the fame I got more offers from different countries so it is great to have huge luxuries for an actor to work and to have the choice. But after, in life, I can't enjoy anonymity. But I can hide myself.
I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.
I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.
I'm a tomb when it comes to my personal life. I never give even a mote of dust of that away."
Hollywood doesn't need me. After 'Am?lie,' I didn't get any offers that interested me. I have very eclectic tastes, but it's important for me that a movie be sensitive, clever and subtle.
Everyone thinks I have an ethnic origin, and could be from North Africa or parts of Asia, or Italy and Spain. But, as far as I know, I'm 100-percent French.
I believe in God, but I am not sure to trust Him so much.
I figured that maybe it would be interesting to try a blockbuster, but I never thought it'd happen to me.
She nearly never got the chance to play the wonderful Am?lie Poulain, as director Jean-Pierre Jeunet was considering British actress Emily Watson for the role of Am?lie.
Was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in June 2004. Is now a member.
She speaks excellent English.
Ranked #29 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
Grew up in Montlucon in central France.
Although invited, she did not attend the private screening of Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) organized and attended by President Jacques Chirac. She had a previous engagement with her brother.
When Emily Watson dropped out of Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001), director Jean-Pierre Jeunet cast Tautou after seeing her on a billboard of the movie Vénus beauté (institut) (1999) in Paris near his home in Bastille.
After Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001), she and her sister went on a roadtrip in Indonesia where no one recognized her.
Favourite authors are Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde and Paul Auster.
Favourite poets are Charles Baudelaire and Tristan Tzara.
Favourite music composers are Ravel, Mozart and Frédéric Chopin.
Once was told by a medium that she was going to be mother of twins at age 30.
Studied at the Cours Florent in Paris.
Also studied literature at university.
Her father is a dental surgeon and her mother is a teacher.
She said that Meryl Streep, Paul Newman, Juliette Lewis, Jodie Foster and Julianne Moore are her idols.
Band Brand New has song named after her, titled 'Tautou' featured on their album Deja Entendu.
French citizen.
Shares birthday with writer Robert Shaw, and soccer players Filippo Inzaghi and Michael Silvestre.
Loves painting. Her favorite painters are Turner, Manet, Schiele, Ingres and Delacroix.
Favourite movies are Barry Lyndon (1975) and À bout de souffle (1960).
Grew up in Montlu?on in central France.
Is the eldest of four children. She has a brother and two sisters.
She takes pictures of her interviewers and puts them in scrapbook.
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