What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

I think that school just isn't for everyone. A lot of people don't learn well when they're - have to sit in a place for eight hours. A lot of people learn best lying in their own bed, teaching themselves from books. And I was a bad student. I was a brat. If I was a teacher, I would not have liked myself.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.