Appearance is valued too much in our society.

If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.

I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

Serve the Lord and then your success will be with Joy

I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant!

America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.