I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

A dead love never dies.

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

We ardently desire to take down our masks and say to the world, “This is who I am…and I am okay.” This is simple…not easy.

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

I'll love you when my eyes are open, I'll love you when my eyes are gone.

You can get fired from any job at any time.

I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.

My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally.

I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.

The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.