"The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has."

“During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.”

“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.”

Source : Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

“You really just love those opportunities and being a competitior in those situations [when running against the best]. I think that's when the art of hurdling and love of competition are at their purest.”

“Why is non-commercial public expression considered criminal?”

“The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°.”

“I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.”

Source : Le Parisien, May, 2003.

“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

“Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.”