You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing otherwise why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.

I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.

War always takes you by surprise.

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.