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

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!

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.

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Trouble is a part of life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

Race ain't nothing but a number.

I have to defend my husband.

The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear.

When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.