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.

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.

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.

I love making movies. I love writing. I love acting. I love it, and I feel really blessed to be able to actually make a living with something I love doing.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Books connect us readers to what we cannot see but imagine, an intangible sort of wonder and magic.

You need to make the right decision—firmly and decisively—and then stick with it with God’s help.

It’s really simple. Sell high-value stuff to people who value high-value stuff.

Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.