Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

If you love movies, then you love America.

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

Im always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, its silly.

Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.

Be loving and kind to everyone.

She would have given up every Gathering from now until she went to join StarClan, if only she could have been sure that her sister was safe.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things.

Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.

Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.

Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.