In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

In an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after.

The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

The more you say no the more people ask.

One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.

I think Björk is playing on the fact she knows she's eccentric and she accepts the fact.

You can't start the change unless dare to be different.

What has happen it will stay here The Seasoning house ( A film which a lot of people should have access).

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.

When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good three-year process.

I overthink a lot of things.

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead.

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.