For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

I'm not a crazy old cat lady!

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

It's so French to be a cat person.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.

No one knows the dead world? Only the dead spirits?

So the unwanting soulsees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soulsees only what it wants.

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

Going forward seems like retreat.

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.