My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

If you love movies, then you love America.

Im always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, its silly.

Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.

God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.

Everything they've said is tainted now. Every day was a lie.

I think it would be frustrating to be a match maker. "What do you do?" "I'm a match maker" "Aw, that's really romantic" "No, umm... I actually... never mind"

I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Perfect health means no weakness anywhere, that is no weakness should remain in the body, or in the mind, or in the relationship between the body and the mind.

I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated.

The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!