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

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.

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.

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

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

Wait a minute. I don't need to keep proving myself. I don't need to keep showing up at every party.

Everyone is being affected, but there is only a group of us awake on the path who are consciously moving beyond the fifth dimension.

Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.

The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.

In any situation, I'm going to be good.

I have never painted a recent picture.

Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.