I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

A woman is subject matter enough.

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.