France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I think there can be incestuous love.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink.

If you fear God, always put Him first, and seek His will, He will give you the desires of your heart

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

Sometimes the best solution is simplification.

Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album. ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers.