When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh

There's no point living, if you can't feel alive.

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions

To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality.

You wouldn't kill me. You'd miss me.

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

Do not say you do not have education or abilities

Intimacy, finally, had got the better of us.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

If you just get out of your own way... It is amazing what will come to you.

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

Dress for the story that you’d like to have people know about you before you even open your mouth.

You may not plan for some things in life but your destiny will take you there.

If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.