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

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.

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.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

Remember, passing judgment on someone else's character, is only a reflection of your own.

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it.

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)