I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

I'm not a crazy old cat lady!

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

It's so French to be a cat person.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.

Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie.

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.