I'm a real pushover for animals.

But you have to trust your instincts. Because you're not going to try it 20 different ways during rehearsal. You'll try it two or three different ways, maybe, but then you've got five other scenes you're shooting that day. You've got to keep going.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

I have been in countries where I don't know a word of the language. I tried to practice my French as much as possible. I would talk with the crew. I always order in French, but then waiters respond in English. I hate that.

It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.