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

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.

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.

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

One thing God has been showing me is that I'm not called to save the world, just to point those He places in my life towards the right way.

I believe the vital ingredient is love—a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

The Invisible Man, who said to his wife, I don't care if it looks silly, don't stop! Never got a dinner!