I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.

Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

Religion tells you to be sincere to yourself and be sincere to everyone else otherwise you cannot assimilate [attain] religion.

He buried his nose in his pillow and went to sleep—to dream of anything rather than getting on in the world, as a sensible young man in his position ought to have done.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.

At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!

Anything good that we do is because of God. Whenever we get our eyes off of Him we crash and burn.

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.