Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the time, something like 400 million people went to the movies.

More and more, money is becoming a religion.

We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world.

Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more riches for a few.

Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit.

I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action movies and westerns, but also lots of serious movies.

We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

Just one smileImmensely increases the beauty Of the universe.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

When I'm at home or at school, I'm casual and comfortable. I tend to wear work out clothes and lots of sweaters.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

De Niro is a classic example of somebody who is iconic and who sort of effortlessly puts actors at ease the moment you meet him. I think it's also just something that he innately does with people.

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends