Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

It is easier to convert your time into products when you move away from any distractions.

If only stupid people could have the mere intelligence to shut up while discussing serious matter, the world would go along so much better !

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

My girlfriend thinks I look like a reptile - it's not the best.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.

I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.

I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.