- I don't want to be a star!
- Spending two days in a hotel doing interviews is not my goal. No, I could be with my kids. I could be making love. That's real life. Surprising my girlfriend, going to Lisbon for two days, you know, that's life. But I couldn't resist it. My two boys, who are 8 and 10 - I can't tell them one day that I refused to be the villain in a Bond movie.
- Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again.
- There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.
- Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.
- Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.
- Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.
- I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.
- If you love movies, then you love America.
- I'm always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.
- I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.
- If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it's silly.
- Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film!
- The body is something absolutely miraculous. It's amazing, the five senses.
- My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I don't know why.
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