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

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.

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.

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.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

Every child must have chores to do. It gives them dignity in work and the joy of labor.

Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

If you like me, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.