I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards.

I don't snack all the time, but I do sometimes drink l more than I should.

Catherine Deneuve is the man I've always wanted to be.

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you - they are the ones out there in the dark, watching.

What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

The wine I produce is not for keeping. Its the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

Right before I met my husband, I always felt as if the party was happening somewhere else. And once I met him and we had our children, I was like, 'This is where the party is.'

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.