My wife is French, and so I get to see America through her eyes, which informs a lot of little moments. It means I can poke fun at very particular things about us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.
When I was in the U.S. for 'Swimming Pool,' people had asked me, 'So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?' And I said, 'No, I'm French! I am living in France. I am not going to be American.'
The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.
I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didn't really speak any English, and when we left, that's all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.
I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.
The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.
I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.
I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.