If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.