It's funny how people want to sometimes think that Young and Beautiful film is about all adolescents, but it's just the case of one girl. It doesn't mean all the adolescents are like that, of course.

I think, when you are the prostitute... you don't want to be coming.

Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.

There is a kind of syndrome of girls who want to dirty themselves. They have the power. They control everything.

Speaking with many young people, they act like their virginity is something you have to turn the page very quickly on. "It's done."

A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.

It's much easier to tame a wild tiger with your bare hands than to convince someone who believes in something, no matter wrong or right.

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

I always had this dream to make a solo record. I told my mom when I was 7 years old, but I just ended up being in bands. I'm a free spirit. I follow my heart, and it's led me to where I am.

My fathers peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

Hustle makes up for many a mistake.

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.