Eric Rohmer

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.