Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.

It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can be a very positive thing.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Marketing is always a tricky thing with a rated R movie. Sometimes people just get what it is and they want to come see it, and sometimes you have to explain it more.

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

I don't have any hidden talents but if you dare me to do something I'll go after it big time.

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship