Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.

I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

I can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.

Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.

They've got organizations for people like me with stupid preoccupations.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

I always quit while I am still inspired, while I could still write more. Never let the thread run all the way out.

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.