I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation..

Spiritual truth is something that is so far from us - without any form or name that we can imagine - that we need the things that religions gave us s….

The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a c….

It's one of the bases of all human existence - the relation between parents and children, whether biologically or metaphorically. It's something we c….

Mature people transmit to young people a certain wisdom that comes from maturity, but young people are close to a more intuitive wisdom, and they can….

I have much respect for the people that I work with, and it's reciprocal. My shoots are always very calm. Everyone has their work to do, and we try t….

One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their prese….

In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of Western culture is in the cen….

Baroque civilization believed in two truths, which for a post-18th-century mindset are exclusive truths - we have to eliminate one to believe the oth….

When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again, for the first….

I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, e….

I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort..

When you see people on the street, they're living in their phones. They aren't living where they are - they haven't got the energy of the past. And s….