The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

When we have no reason to be happy we often think to end ourselves, We often think we have no one in this world, it happens when our loved ones leave us and make us alone in this vast universe.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.

During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.

More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home.