When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

I can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.

Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.

Magic is an ancient practice that has power over superstitious mind.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

There's always going to be haters. And the more hate you get, the better you are doing.

A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

The cooking side is the easier way to be creative. On the policy side, it's harder to think of new approaches to problems.

I thought America needed to see what a normal family was really like.