In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.