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

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.

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.

Free yourself of any load which impedes you

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.