I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"

Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

Devour your fear.

From sunrise to sunset to sunrise, there is a lifetime of beauty, charm and elegance.

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.

Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.

I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.

Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that in an ideal world you would hold back.

Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.

Every lion has a time in their life when a thorn has got to them at one point.

I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.