I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

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.

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

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.

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.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

I always say that you are who you are and you can't hide it.

He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.

I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.