Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

Do not let anybody reign with you, until they suffer with you.

Life is a tragedy. so, walk through it with a dam SMILE

Those who seek happiness miss it and those who discuss it lack it.

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.

I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.