It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.

When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo and I was having problems coping with that image.

In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

I don't act to be popular, or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time, and what I look like.

As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.

I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.

I would love to meet some directors, and why not do some other movies in America? But, I'm not obsessed with this idea. I'm feeling very free in Europe.

I'm not interested in making money, or being wealthy enough to have a villa in Beverly Hills, because in Paris I don't need that much money.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.

Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

May the fire in your soul, burn down all the fences and walls which this society is trying to build around you.

What we believe in our heart, we must declare with our mouth.

Man persists in waywardness. If one institution fails [he says], try another—anything but God’s plan.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

I want to make, like, 8,000 movies.

I don't talk about my salary.

What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.

I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.