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

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.

we are like puppets synchronized by god........

People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.

In the end, there is really nothing more important than taking care of the earth and letting it take care of you.

A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk

Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.

A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.

I don't believe in anti-aging creams. I believe the skin should be clean, should be nourished, but most of all you should eat the right things.

We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.