I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.

Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.

To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.