I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh

There's no point living, if you can't feel alive.

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions

To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality.

You wouldn't kill me. You'd miss me.

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

What I am interested in is the present time

Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.

Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors. When ignorance and hate enter the room, progress makes its exit.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.

I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in my songwriting.

Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it.

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.