I'm brighter when I'm not drunk; when I'm drunk, I lose part of my IQ.

When you start a movie... when it's a short, people don't care... but when it's a feature they want money.

You wake up because you killed someone and you're afraid of going to jail. And the moment you wake up you feel safe and it's over and you can meet that person in the street and you're not going to jail. The good thing about dreams is that they erase some kind of desire, because after your dreams you feel you've done it, and you're relieved.

The negative has to be done on an A and B [roll] so you don't see the cuts, the splices on the frameline.

I think that people can fall in love with someone who is not of their own generation.

The power that a president has in France is like the power of a king. In America, you know that his power is limited. Maybe because there used to be a king for centuries and now they're still behaving like they need a king.

I notice that I feel safer among women when I do drugs. I would never do drugs with male friends.