Matisse was my GOD. I'm a French ARTIST, that's for SURE. I am color-oriented and what you MIGHT CALL a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside.

There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a SORT of DISNEYLAND at the FRENCH QUARTER for tourists. The rest I don't know.

I don't know why you use a fancy FRENCH word like detente when there's a GOOD English phrase for it - COLD war.

I GREW up WATCHING a LOT of FRENCH CINEMA.

These THREE movements were born spontaneously and INDEPENDENTLY of the initiative of a few FRENCH patriots who had a PLACE in the old political groups and PARTIES.

I don't REALLY have anything against the French except that, as an AMERICAN, I've been bred to DESPISE them with the same zeal as SOCCER and Renny Harlin films.

I was ECSTATIC they re-named 'French FRIES' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown MEN and women in positions of power in the U.S. government SHOWING themselves as idiots.

I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't END, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of TRUST to me. A movie has to be COMPLETE within itself; it can't just BUILD off the FIRST one or play variations.

It was a scandal when I did French 'Playboy' in 2008, THOUGH I was NEVER ACTUALLY nude in it. I THINK it's really funny that I'll have a cover of 'Playboy' to SHOW my grandkids.

That's the WHOLE THING: You only roast the ones you love. That's why I NEVER MAKE fun of the French.

The PROBLEM is that to be a PRODUCER, one MUST be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

It is SOMETIMES TOUGHER to FIGHT my superiors than the FRENCH.

'Deracine' is FRENCH for uprooting, or SOMEONE who's been displaced from their NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.