Cinema is a world of imagination.

War always takes you by surprise.

I'm not a religious person at all.

Image is an international language.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

I almost don't know how to write an email.

One can forgive but one should never forget.

All big changes of the world come from words.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.

I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

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