People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.

It is a fact that you have a calling, but you must also know when the time comes for its fulfillment

Turning up our light in the presence of those whose light is dim becomes the difference that makes the difference.

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.