If you love movies, then you love America.

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

Im always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, its silly.

Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.

Angels are showing up in our lives as friends. We just have to recognize them.

The essence of darkness is the knowledge of what blocks the light.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

I have always held the view that decisive force should be used in addressing a military conflict. The reason is simple: Why wouldn't you, if you could?

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.