The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

I'm not a crazy old cat lady!

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

It's so French to be a cat person.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

The best way to learn is to do

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.