The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

When you hit failure your workout has just begun.

To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.