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Quotes by French Authors
"This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish."
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
"In jealousy there is more self - love than love."
"Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution."
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
"Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the only way to behave; then he suddenly discovers that, even for a prince, there are such things as music, literature, not to speak of standing for the post of deputy."
"Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it."
"For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date."
"The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself."
"Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable."
"The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin."
"Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe."
"It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you."
"I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory."
"We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future."
"I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script."
"So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it and sometimes three."
"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle."
"Another said , "I don't ask six months, I don't ask two. In less than two weeks we'll meet the government face to face. With twenty-five thousand men we can make our stand."
"Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody."
"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."
"Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have."
"Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations."
"Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else."
"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
"Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation."
"Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."
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