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61 " In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us. "
62 " But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them. "
63 " I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. "
64 " I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start. "
65 " I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant. "
66 " When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris. "
67 " It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone. "
68 " Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist. "
69 " I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually. "
70 " I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. "
71 " Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.' "
