For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

I think I would never be ready to do a regular job. I couldn’t go to the office every day at the same hour. I love my life. This freedom.

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

I love good food. I’m an epicurean, that’s for sure. … But I am not really a good cook.

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.

As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.

Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.

Because if they grow up holding on to such terrible feelings, it could lead to another war come time in the future when the fate of the country is in their hands.

There is deep darkness before the dawn of light.

Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.

Do you love the truth more than you need to be loved, or do you need to be loved more than you love the truth?

The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.

Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

I was very popular in high school.