French Quotes

I don't care about the past.

I didn't study; I live.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

It was really hard to find another project after my first film.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.'

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

I spent all my youth with horses.

I know that one day I would love to do a musical.

Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.

Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.