What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
Im 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 directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].
There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.
Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.
If you love movies, then you love America.
My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.
You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city. . . You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.
We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.
My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.