It wasn't a revenge game or a get-back game, because that was a long time ago. This was just a big win for us.

I really lost vision of the guy and it's on me.

Every stage of life has its own challenges. Be grateful for each stage.

I don't like straight lines: men make them.

Write only if you wish to read it again and again...

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.