If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.