What is power without control?.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

I was never trained for anything.

I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back..

Learning is the making of meaning..

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis..

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing..

The novel remains a very special form for me..

A place where we all go can't be bad..

It's the ciiiiiiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiiife!" Iggy sang.

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short..

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously..

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again..

I feel like Alain Delon, who once said, "It doesn't matter that I'm not a star in America because I'm a huge star in France, I'm a legend in Spain, a….

I modeled from the time I was 15 until I was 20..

I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else..

I would never say that I'm not going to do something. I like not being limited..

I even watched Mulholland Drive in French... it didn't make much more sense in French, but I have to say, it didn't make any less sense either..

Life's a pitch, and then you buy..

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good..