Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

When we are passionate about God, we can trust our passions.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

I am a survivor of domestic violence.

You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?

Delhi is definitely a foodie's paradise.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.