You wouldn't kill me. You'd miss me.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh

There's no point living, if you can't feel alive.

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions

To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality.

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

What I am interested in is the present time

Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.

The morning sunshine brings the message that life is so bright and beautiful that the darkness of night has no power to hide it.

It is not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful. It's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude.

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

I had been wrong when I said Liza McCullen wasn't beautiful: when she smiled she was stunning.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward.

I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.

My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.

People are imperfect, but that doesn’t mean they spoil like milk.

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?