I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.

I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

I can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.

Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

There can be no law of nature, no science, No aberrant infliction of human willThat unchained the soul cannot conquer, Simply sweep away, should it chose to.

To be conscientious. You must first be conscious.

I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.