I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

Everything I wear doesnt put me in the league of women. If I were a boy, I could look a lot prettier than a lot of boys I know.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

People always like things that seem exotic.

May the Lord grant you grace to endure the times.

I don't know why they call it life, it's just a moment with memories.

Only wise men can differentiate between what is a matter of pride and what is a principle of dignity.

Sometimes when one person is missing the whole world seems depopulated.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.

The more passions you have the happier you'll be

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.