I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

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 book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

Our memories and events in our lives are untidy things. We wish that we can file them away and shut the door, or wish the opposite - that they would stay forever.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.

Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.