http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/interview-marion-cotillard skrev:

It's very unpredictable what will become of an actor's career once they win an Oscar. For some, they get this one big role that's rewarded, but then things don't necessarily work out as they might have hoped. You've had anything but that experience, and it seems to partly stem from the directors and projects you've chosen. Are you chasing down the directors you work with or do they typically come calling?

I suppose it's a mix of both. The only director I chased [laughs] was a Danish director, Thomas Vinterberg, and I never worked with him. This was a long time ago, when I was...nothing. I really wanted to work with him, and I started to learn Danish to work with him, but it didn't work out. And then years later, when I was promoting La Vie en Rose around the world, I went to Denmark, and as a surprise, the distributors arranged a meeting for me and Thomas. And I was so shy. It was kind of crazy.

Why him?

Because Festen was a shock. And I loved their process—the Dogme process. And I thought what they could do with this, this Dogme, was so cinematographic, and so amazing, that I really wanted to work with him. I loved [Festen]—the way it's shot, how he is with the characters, his camera, the story. For me, everything was perfect. But I wanted to work with him in a Danish movie, not an English one. Back then, all my friends said, "You're so stupid. You should be improving your English because he's going to go to Hollywood, and he's going to make American movies." But for me, it was like...I just wanted to do a Danish movie with him.

Well you've certainly proven that you can tackle a lot of different languages for different roles. Is that something you were always doing when you were aspiring to be an actor—practicing different languages and dialects?

No. No, I'm actually not very good at it.