"It was quite an experience because she is a fabulous actress, because she knows absolutely everything about movies, about what an actor can do on the screen. It's a real challenge to have someone like that in front of you. But she is quite hard to work with because she wants to be at the head of everything, and you have to remain very alert because otherwise she can eat you. Alas, it makes things difficult. You have to stay a bit out of her reach because otherwise she might just manage to devour you." a proposito della collega Simone Signoret.

(Philippe Noiret, attore; Lilla, 1º ottobre 1930 – Parigi, 23 novembre 2006)