Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.