"I like to be in control of things."

“Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.”
“Every film comes out of an intuition, where I'm at, at that moment in particular. But looking back on my work, somehow I get back to masculinity and how men are taught to avoid showing how fragile they can be, or to people who are in constant movement.”
“To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.”

Source : Michel Houellebecq (2003). “Platform: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
“I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming out. And the masculine side for women coming out won't be such a burden, in a way. Just be ourselves.”

Source : Source: the-attic.net
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?”
“Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.”
“I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.”
“At the Republican convention, there were lots of words used to describe Hillary Clinton, but warm, funny and caring weren't among them.”

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