"Being a photographer helps me see the work differently. I always walk away seeing things differently than when I stare at them myself. It gives me a little distance. So I love photography, but it also helps me tell the story. When I shoot the ad campaign for my work, it allows me to be much more direct."

“Strangely, producing "Parisienne" was very long and difficult because the people who mainly finance films didn't understand the idea of a young foreign girl having a good time in Paris. They wanted to see her suffering and poor, and definitely not falling in love with three French men!”

Source : "‘Parisienne’ Director Danielle Arbid on Telling A Positive Story About a Foreigner Living in Paris". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 12, 2016.

“I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A perilous advantage: the best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, New Victoria Pub

“Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.”

“You can't fake some of this chemistry, even when you get a guy and a girl and they've got to be together.”

Source : "Adam Sandler and the Cast of Reign Over Me Speak". Movieweb interview, movieweb.com. March 19, 2007.

“He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.”

“The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.”

“The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.”

“Underground comics were produced by individuals - they were the auteur variety, rather than the production-line sort of comic book aimed at pleasing a vast general audience. Mainstream comics never appealed to me: they seemed sterile in their stylistic consistency, and were quickly consumed, the stories interesting only for so long as you were reading them.”