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.

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.

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.

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

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

To Jesus, the Christian life wasn't about being perfect but about being perfected.

So why did he do it?"Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love.

If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.

Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.

Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.

You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.

Sad when you spend more time trying to stay alive than living.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

Good values are easier caught than taught.