Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

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

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself.

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.

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

I'm a good storyteller.

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.

What I am interested in is the present time.

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

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

All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.

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

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

I'm not a crazy germophobe; I have kids, and that ship has sailed.

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious of which you are not aware. The moment you are aware that you are happy you cease to be happyYou want to be consciously happy the moment you are consciously happy happiness is gone.

Religions are many and diverse but reason and goodness are one.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Like Moscow, I wish to lay the foundation of the Chinese Republic deeply in the minds of the young generation - the workers of tomorrow.

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.

I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.

If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies.

When people dont respect one another seldom is there honesty.

When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French.

More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often.

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.