The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

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

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

I think history shows that countries have to have some kind of a threshold level of economic success before they begin to have the means and the will to focus on the environment.

The U.K. military role in Iraq ended a very long way from success.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.