I think I would never be ready to do a regular job. I couldn’t go to the office every day at the same hour. I love my life. This freedom.

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

I love good food. I’m an epicurean, that’s for sure. … But I am not really a good cook.

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.

For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries—to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.

The last thing I would ever do though is actively work against another woman.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.

We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

We've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed. And, indeed, the kind of misery that it enacts on its own people.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.