To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.

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.

We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

I never know if a book is crazy or not. There's that fear - this is the one that will end it all.

Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.

The world is a playground, and death is the night.

But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.