It's always hard to talk about the culture that you are from, especially with Islam, it is a very sensitive subject and I don't want to be seen to be adding to the problems of Islam and the west.

I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen.

Don't try to fix the past, try to build the future.

We've been given a second chance. How many people can say that?

Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.

As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.

I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.

I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it.

When all our tears have reached the sea, part of you will live in me.