Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.
The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.
I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.
Sometimes living is not so light and easy and you need a representation of life in front of you. It's a fake reorganization of reality. You start to feel, "I'm not so alone in the world because I can recognize exactly the same feelings. "
Because I'm Parisian, I wanted to show a Paris that I don't see at the movies, so I spent a lot of time looking for places that have never been filmed, for streets that have never been filmed because there's a thing about Paris, where it's kind of like a charming music box, this luminous cocoon, like those things that have fake snow in them that you turn upside down.
Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris. "
I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.
An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.
Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.
Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now , consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.