French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.

Concerned about my safety, are you? -William Herondale.

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

You are the only one who can do it like you do it. You are the best. You have what it takes. You have the power. When you put your mind to something, you get it done. So what are you waiting for?

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.