My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

I only like boutiques.