Kristin Scott Thomas

But I discovered a passion for this writer called Marguerite Duras.

And I'm ashamed to say that one of the reasons I enjoyed reading her writing so much, and she wrote plays and she wrote novels and she was quite, she was a very famous figure in the 70s and 80s.

And one of the reasons I really enjoyed it, because her sentences are really short,

And the publisher, the books they were published in, were very large writing.

So it was incredibly accessible.

But the thoughts were quite profound and sometimes very complicated.

So that's where I got this reputation for being incredibly brainy.

I was reading Marguerite Duras, but it was simply because the print was big and the sentences were short.

I do have a bit of an accent, but it doesn't really matter.

I think the difference between in England, we have an obsession with regional accents.

And who belongs where and where do they come from?

And it sort of bleeds over into foreign.

So, you know, where do they come from?

It's all very mysterious.

In Europe, it's much more fluid because people arrive from Spain or they arrive from Portugal or they arrive from Germany or they arrive from Northern Europe.

You know, there's much more of a mixture.

So people aren't so hung up on the way people speak there.

So I know that when I was making films a lot in France, we took the film on to a regional place to do press conferences.

And somebody said, you know, was I from the next door town?

Because they didn't, you know, couldn't tell.