I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

I'm not a crazy old cat lady!

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

It's so French to be a cat person.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.

Do you think magic exists if it can be explained?

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.

I'm famous, so I can't, like, really walk around in malls and stuff like that. I don't really have as much privacy.

Perfection is really boring!

In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.