"“I’ve been to Paris, France and Paris, Paramount. I prefer Paris, Paramount,” Ernst Lubitsch once famously remarked. This is Lubitsch and Paris, Paramount, at their absolute peak."

"Watched this while on walkabout in France because I had an idea to make a movie about dysphasic doppelgängers of the opposite sex. Don’t know why it affected me, but it did."

"A hard, unflinching look at what it was like to resist during wartime France. Personally, I prefer Bob le flambeur, but any Melville is good Melville. And this is very, very good."

"Well recently I watched Grand Illusion, which I haven’t seen in several years — no, I’ll say another one instead: There’s one called Toni, that’s Jean Renoir before Grand Illusion, before Rules of the Game, and it’s set in the south of France and they’re Italian immigrants who’re working, who’re laborers working in the South of France. It’s very beautiful, kind of lyrical and very sad; a great Renoir movie. I don’t know if it’s seen that much anymore. It’s great."

"Like most teenagers in France at the time, I was introduce to Prevert in school. And also like most teenagers, I was slightly rebellious and had my anti-establishment moments and so Paroles really spoke to me."