French Quotes

I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

I'm not a crazy old cat lady!

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.'

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.

I don't really like those sorts of actresses who say, 'I don't want to make that movie,' but they make the movie. They just spend their time not liking being on a set and I just think it's absurd, because we are so lucky to do this job. When you accept to make a movie, just make the movie. And then

I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that one could add nothing more to them.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.