It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.

In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.

There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."

I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn't compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it's my personality that these designers were drawn to.

I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

Too many people die in our world today because, they don’t eat well, rest well, play well and live well.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Once a champion, always a champion.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.

The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick

And how do you know that you're mad?

Films are always different from books.